- Early 19th century: Geertrudia van den Heuvel served as corporal in the Netherlands dressed as a man under the name Jacobus Philippus Vermeij.[1]
- 1802: Bùi Thị Xuân, the general of rebel forces during the Tây Sơn Rebellion in Vietnam, is captured and executed by her enemies.[2]
- 1802: Marie-Jeanne Lamartinière served at the Battle of Crête-à-Pierrot.[3]
- 1802: Mai Sukhan defends the town of Amritsar against Ranjit Singh.[4][5]
- 1802: La Mulâtresse Solitude participates in the former slaves fight for freedom in the Battle of 18 May, when slavery was reintroduced on Guadeloupe by Napoleon.[6][7]
- 1803: Lorenza Avemanay led a revolt against Spanish occupation in Ecuador.[8]
- 1803: Madame d'Oettlinger served as a spy for Napoleon in Germany.[9]
- 1805: Jane Townsend served aboard HMS Defiance during the Battle of Trafalgar.[10]
- 1806-1812: Virginie Ghesquière took her brother's place in the 27th Line regiment of Napoleon's army, served during the Peninsular War under Andoche Junot, was promoted to lieutenant,[11] and in 1857 awarded the Saint Helena medal.[12]
- 1805: Marie-Jeanne Schellinck served in the Battle of Austerlitz.[13]
- 1806: Manuela Pedraza fought in the reconquest of Buenos Aires after the first British invasion of the Río de la Plata.[14]
- 1807–1816: Nadezhda Durova served in the Russian army. She earned the cross of St George for valour in combat and became the Russian army's first female officer.[15]
- 1808: Juana Galán was a guerrilla fighter of the Peninsular War (1808–1814).[16]
- 1808: Manuela Malasaña participated in The 2nd of May Uprising in Madrid (1808) against the troops of Napoleon I of France during the Peninsular War.[16]
- 1808: Agustina de Aragón defended Spain during the Spanish War of Independence.[17] During the bloody sieges of Saragossa, French General Jean-Antonie Verdier started the attack with a twenty-seven-hour bombardment of Zaragoza. At the Portillo Gate, most of the Spanish defenders had been killed or wounded, and on 2 July 1808 a French column launched an assault on the unmanned Portillo Gate battery. Observing the danger, twenty-two-year-old Agustina rushed forward to a twenty-four-pound cannon, retrieved the still-burning wick from the hands of a fallen gunner, and fired the cannon loaded with grapeshot at the advancing French column that decimated it and gave time to arrive Spanish reinforcements from a near battery to reject the attack. Agustina herself explained the facts in a memorial signed in Sevilla city in date 12 August 1810.
- 1808–1809: Elisa Servenius enlisted in the Swedish army dressed as a man because "She had decided to live and to die with her husband", the soldier Bernhard Servenus; she participated in the war between Sweden and Russia over Finland and, during one battle, she collected ammunition from the Russians and gave them to her comrades. She was later discovered and discharged but decorated with a medal for bravery in battle.[18]
- 1809–1813: Joanna Żubr served in the Polish army.[19] She received the Virtuti Militari, the first woman to be granted the highest Polish military award.
- 1809–1825: Juana Azurduy de Padilla acted as a guerrilla leader in Bolivia.[20]
- 1810s: Juana Ramírez commands a group of female rebel soldiers during the Venezuelan War of Independence.[citation needed]
- 1810s: Teriitaria II personally leads armies into battle.[21][22]
- 1810, Sweden: Maria Nilsdotter i Ölmeskog dissolves a potential rebel army and are rewarded by the monarch for having prevented a rebellion.[23]
- 1811–1812: María Feliciana joined the pro-independence rebellion in El Salvador along with her sisters and helped in the capture of Sensuntepeque.
- 1811–1817: Gertrudis Bocanegra serves as a spy, a messenger and a guerrilla fighter during the Mexican War of Independence.[24]
- 1811–1817: María Martínez provides reports as a spy to the rebel army during the Mexican War of Independence. She is fined and jailed several times, and is eventually executed.[25]
- 1812: Vasilisa Kozhina leads a Russian partisan group against Napoleon.[26]
- 1812: Marie Manuel and her husband Blaise Peuxe serve together as gunners in a French artillery unit during the Peninsular War. They are captured together when the British Army enters Madrid in August 1812, and become prisoners of war in Scotland, where Marie is officially acknowledged as an enemy combatant rather than simply a camp follower, wearing uniform and avoiding the repatriation imposed on other prisoners' attendant families. The memoirs of another prisoner hint that she was a Spanish girl who had met her husband when she saved him from guerrillas in 1811, but this source may combine the story of the husband-and-wife gunners with elements of the biographies of other female prisoners-of-war in the same group.[27]
- 1812–1814: Francina Broese Gunningh serve in the French, the Prussian and finally in the Dutch army dressed as a male under the name Frans Gunningh Sloet.[28][29]
- 1813: Eleonore Prochaska killed fighting for the Lützow Free Corps.[30]
- 1813: Manuela Medina participates in active warfare in the Battle of Acapulco during the Mexican War of Independence.[31]
- 1813–1815: Anna Lühring[32] and Friederike Krüger[33] serve in the Prussian army during the Napoleonic Wars.
- 1813: Laura Secord Canadian heroine of the War of 1812
- 1813: Johanna Stegen participate in the defense of the city of Lüneburg against the French.[34]
- 1814: Ghaliyya al-Wahhabiyya defend Mecca against the Ottomans with her own Wahhabi army at the Battle of Turaba.[35]
- 1814: Úrsula Goyzueta participate in the defense of Santa Barbara the Bolivian War of Independence.[36]
- 1815: William Brown (birth name unknown), a Royal Navy sailor, is discovered to be a woman. She is the first black woman to serve in the Royal Navy.[37]
- 1815: Several women are found dead in British uniforms after the Battle of Waterloo, among them Mary Dixon, who dies in service after having served sixteen years in the British army dressed as a man.[38]
- 1817: La Pola is executed by the Spanish after having served as a spy during the Colombian war of Independence.[39]
- 1817: Martha Christina Tiahahu fights against the Dutch colonial government in Molucca, Indonesia.[40][41][42]
- 1819: Manono II, fought along with her husband Keaoua Kekuaokalani, in the Battle of Kuamoo, where both perished in defense of the kapu system.[43]
- 1819: María Antonia Santos Plata, a Neogranadine (now Colombia) peasant, galvanized, organized, and led the rebel guerrillas in the Province of Socorro against the invading Spanish troops during the Reconquista of the New Granada; she was ultimately captured, tried, and found guilty of lese-majesty and high treason, sentenced and ultimately put to death by firing squad.[44]
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