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MARY ANNE TALBOT (1778-1808)

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 368 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MARY See also:ANNE See also:TALBOT (1778-1808)  , the " See also:British See also:Amazon," was See also:born in See also:London on the 2nd of See also:February 1778 . She believed herself to be the illegitimate See also:child of the 1st See also:Earl See also:Talbot . See also:Early in her career she eloped, in the disguise of a boy, with a See also:captain . In 1792 she was a drummer in See also:Flanders . In the See also:capture of See also:Valenciennes her See also:lover was killed; and See also:Mary See also:Anne deserted and became See also:cabin boy on a See also:French lugger, which she asserted wascaptured by the British, who transferred her to the " Bruns-See also:wick," where she served as a See also:powder See also:monkey, being wounded in See also:Lord See also:Howe's victory of the 1st of See also:June 1794 . For this she later received a small See also:pension . When the See also:wound healed she again went to See also:sea, was captured by the French, and imprisoned for a See also:year and a See also:half . Her See also:sex was not discovered until shortly afterwards she was seized by a pressgang . She finally became a See also:household servant to See also:Robert See also:Kirby, a London publisher, who included an See also:account of her adventures in his Wonderful Museum (1804) and in See also:Life and Surprising Adventures of Mary Anne Talbot (1809) . She died on the 4th of February 18o8 .

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