Female Warriors, Volume II by Ellen C. Clayton

-Colonel in the Mexican Army -- Civil War in America -- Female Privates in the Potomac Army -- Female Lieutenant and Privates in the Army of the West -- Mrs. Clayton, Private in the Federal Army -- Emily -- -- , Private in the Drum Corps of a Michigan Regiment -- Female Confederates at Ringgold, Chattanooga -- Mrs. Florence Bodwin -- Female Mulatto Sergeant -- Native Contingent in New Zealand -- Herminia Manelli, Corporal of Bersaglieri (Battle of Custozza, 1866) -- Lopez's Amazons -- Cretan Amazons -- Women of Montenegro -- Female Brigands -- German Order to Reward Courage in Women -- Franco-Prussian War -- Minna Haensel's Amazon Corps.

Since the first French Revolution, monarchs have not always sat easily upon their thrones. They fancied they had cut down the Tree of Liberty after the downfall of Napoleon, and that it would never grow up again; but in a very short time it brought forth new branches, and has since borne fruit in a way which the most sanguine Republican of olden times would scarcely have ventured to predict. Since the battle of Waterloo, Europe and America -- even parts of Asia and Africa -- have been convulsed by rebellions, civil wars, and revolutions, which have often shaken the world to its centre. The peoples learnt to hate their rulers; and one nation after another, catching the revolutionary fire from the smouldering brand half stamped out in France, rose in rebellion against the monarch who refused them immediate enfranchisement. Again and again have the nations been compelled by force of arms to submit; but they rise again whenever they fancy they see a favourable opportunity.