Historical
Antiquity
Epipole of Carystus was a Greek woman reported by Chennos to have joined the Greek army in the Trojan War.
Achilles was a Greek hero in the Trojan War. After hearing an Oracle that her son would die in battle, his mother, Thetis, hid him in woman's clothing to prevent him from being taken to war.
Middle Ages
Hua Mulan was, according to a famous Chinese poem, a woman who joined the Chinese army in her father's stead.
Fourteenth century
Jeanne de Clisson (1300–1359), the “Lioness of Brittany”, was a pirate who plied the English Channel for French ships from 1343 to 1356.
Joanna of Flanders (c. 1295–1374) led the Montfortist faction in Brittany in the 1340s after the capture of her husband left her as the titular head of the family. She wore male dress at engagements such as the siege of Hennebont.
Onorata Rodiani (1403–1452) was a semilegendary Italian mercenary.
]Fifteenth century
Jacqueline of Wittelsbach, Countess of Hainaut (1401–1436) led the Hoek faction in Holland. She and one of her servants disguised themselves as soldiers to escape confinement in Ghent.
Joan of Arc (c. 1412–1431), the national heroine of France, led armies in male clothing during the Hundred Years' War and was accused of cross-dressing by the tribunal that sentenced her to death.
Sixteenth century
Brita Olofsdotter, widow after soldier Nils Simonsson, serves in the Finnish troup in the Swedish cavalry in Livonia; she is killed in battle, and king John III of Sweden orders for her salary to be paid to her family.
Seventeenth century
Catalina de Erauso (1592–1650), the Nun Lieutenant, was a semilegendary Spanish adventurer.
Eighteenth century
Bonnie Prince Charlie (1720–1788) dressed as Flora MacDonald's maid servant, Betty Burke, to escape the Battle of Culloden for the island of Skye in 1746.
Deborah Sampson (1760–1827) of Massachusetts was the first known American woman who disguised herself as a soldier. She served in the Continental Army in the Revolutionary War.
Joanna Żubr (1770–1852) was a Polish soldier of the Napoleonic Wars and the first woman to receive the Virtuti Militari, the highest Polish military order.
Hannah Snell (1723–1792) was an Englishwoman who entered military service under the name "James Gray", initially for the purpose of searching for her missing husband. She served in General Guise's regiment in the army of the Duke of Northumberland, and then in the marines.
Ulrika Eleonora Stålhammar (1688–1733) was a Swedish female soldier and crossdresser during the Great Northern War.
Nineteenth century
Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, Mexican dictator and general, tried to escape after his defeat at San Jacinto disguised as a woman.
Albert D. J. Cashier (1843–1915), born Jennie Irene Hodgers, was an Irish-born woman served in the Union Army during the American Civil War as a male soldier.
Jane Dieulafoy (1851-1916) was a French woman who, when her husband enlisted during the Franco-Prussian War, dressed as a man and fought alongside him.
Nadezhda Durova (1783–1866) was a decorated Russian cavalry soldier of the Napoleonic Wars who spent nine years disguised as a man.
Eleonore Prochaska (1785–1813) was a German woman soldier who fought in the Lützow Free Corps during the War of the Sixth Coalition.
Friederike Krüger (1789–1848) was a soldier in the Prussian army.
James Barry (surgeon) (c. 1792-1795 – 25 July 1865) was a military surgeon in the British Army who is widely believed to have been born female and named Margaret Ann Bulkley.
Anna Lühring (1796–1866) (sometimes wrongly referred to as Anna Lührmann) was a German soldier in the Lützow Free Corps during the Napoleonic Wars.
Mária Lebstück (1831-1892) was a Hussar officer during the Hungarian War of Independence of 1848 and 1849 under the name Károly Lebstück.
Sarah Emma Edmonds (1841–1898) served with the Union Army in the American Civil War disguised as a man named Frank Thompson.
Mollie Bean served with the Confederate Army in the American Civil War under the alias Melvin Bean.
Cathay Williams (1844–1892) was a former slave who became the first recorded African-American woman in the U.S. Army.
Loreta Janeta Velazquez a.k.a. "Lieutenant Harry Buford" (June 26, 1842- c.1897) - A Cuban woman who donned Confederate garb and served as a Confederate officer and spy during the war.[1][2]
Twentieth century
Ecaterina Teodoroiu (1894–1917), regarded as a heroine of Romania, fought and died in World War I. However, her biography does not note that she crossdressed in order to fight.[citation needed]
Dorothy Lawrence (1896–1964) was a British reporter who served as a man in the army during World War I.
Frieda Belinfante (1904-1995) was a prominent musician and World War II Dutch Resistance fighter who disguised herself as a man for 6 months to avoid capture by the Gestapo.
Ehud Barak (b. 1942), the later prime minister of Israel, disguised himself as a woman to assassinate members of the Palestine Liberation Organization in Beirut during the 1973 covert mission Operation Spring of Youth.
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