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A new recruit has joined the ranks of Napoleonic women disguised as men to become soldiers; This nameless Belgian damsel is referred to in some old Dutch songs as joining the French light infantry to be with her lover, who was been conscripted. She is said to have served with the Chasseurs for three years until she got wounded at Austerlitz where she was discovered as being a woman.
Here she is introduced to the three best-known Napoleonic female soldiers, all of whom disguised themselves as men to fight for their countries; from left to right: Eleonore Prochaska, Jäger (rifleman) in the Prussian Lützow Freikorps; Francesca Scanagatta, officer in the Austrian infantry; and Nadezhda Durova, Uhlan of the Russian lancers. They are supposed to learn her a thing or two about being a woman disguised as a Napoleonic soldier... or something...
(Needless to say this did not really happen... just wanted to group the Napoleonic fighting women together.)

All uniforms and appearances of the women are as close to historically accurate as possible (I improvised for the Belgian woman because nothing is known about her except that she served with the French skirmishers for 3 years).
Scanagatta wears the Austrian 1788 uniform because it is sexy and appropriate. Same for the Russian troopers' greatcoat of Nadezhda.

There are no Napoleonic English women because the Napoleonic English are boring and irrelevant.
I could've put the Spanish Agustina de Aragón in here too, but... she did not disguise herself as a man and as far as I know did not enter the regular Spanish army, so... she doesn't really fit in here...

(Source for the Belgian woman: dbnl.org/titels/titel.php?id=_…)

Description
A new recruit has joined the ranks of Napoleonic women disguised as men to become soldiers; This nameless Belgian damsel is referred to in some old Dutch songs as joining the French light infantry to be with her lover, who was been conscripted. She is said to have served with the Chasseurs for three years until she got wounded at Austerlitz where she was discovered as being a woman.
Here she is introduced to the three best-known Napoleonic female soldiers, all of whom disguised themselves as men to fight for their countries; from left to right: Eleonore Prochaska, Jäger (rifleman) in the Prussian Lützow Freikorps; Francesca Scanagatta, officer in the Austrian infantry; and Nadezhda Durova, Uhlan of the Russian lancers. They are supposed to learn her a thing or two about being a woman disguised as a Napoleonic soldier... or something...
(Needless to say this did not really happen... just wanted to group the Napoleonic fighting women together.)

All uniforms and appearances of the women are as close to historically accurate as possible (I improvised for the Belgian woman because nothing is known about her except that she served with the French skirmishers for 3 years).
Scanagatta wears the Austrian 1788 uniform because it is sexy and appropriate. Same for the Russian troopers' greatcoat of Nadezhda.

There are no Napoleonic English women because the Napoleonic English are boring and irrelevant.
I could've put the Spanish Agustina de Aragón in here too, but... she did not disguise herself as a man and as far as I know did not enter the regular Spanish army, so... she doesn't really fit in here...

(Source for the Belgian woman: dbnl.org/titels/titel.php?id=_…)