1. Hannah Snell was an English woman who disguised herself as a man to join the British military.
20 Facts About Hannah Snell
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Hannah Snell was the youngest daughter of the family, with eight siblings.
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Hannah Snell's father Samuel Snell was a hosier and dyer.
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In spite of this, Hannah Snell learned to read but never learned to write.
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Hannah Snell was refer to as the "young Amazon Snell" by locals and she often played soldier as a child.
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Hannah Snell used her patrimony to pay for his luxurious lifestyle.
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Hannah Snell moved back in with her sibling Susannah and her brother-in-law, James Gray.
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Hannah Snell joined John Guise's regiment, the 6th Regiment of Foot.
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Hannah Snell joined the military when she was 25 years old under her brother-in-law's identity, James Gray.
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Hannah Snell joined the regiment of general John Guise in 1747, where she received training in military exercises and greatly excelled.
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Hannah Snell boarded the Merlin-class sloop HMS Swallow at Portsmouth and sailed as a cabin boy under commander John Rowzier to Lisbon.
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Hannah Snell's unit was to invade French Mauritius as part of the War of the Austrian Succession, but the attack was called off.
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Hannah Snell was injured a total of 11 times, with one shot in her groin and five in her leg.
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Hannah Snell then spent five weeks in Bombay where her crewmates noticed that she did not shave her face and nicknamed her "Miss Molly Gray".
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Hannah Snell petitioned Prince William, Duke of Cumberland, the head of the army, for her pension.
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Hannah Snell sold her story to London publisher Robert Walker, who published her account, The Female Soldier, in two different editions.
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Hannah Snell began to appear on stage in their uniform presenting military drills and singing songs.
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Sources claim that after receiving her pension, Hannah Snell retired to Wapping and kept a pub named either The Female Warrior or The Widow in Masquerade, but it did not last long.
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Abbreviated magazine and newspaper accounts of Hannah Snell's life were widespread both within and beyond England.
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The pronouns and gender identity assigned to Hannah Snell vary between publications.