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Female Warriors: Memorials of Female Valour and Heroism, from the ..., Volume 2 Ellen C. Clayton No preview available - 2017 |
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Page 69 - Roman people," says Aurelian, in an original letter, "speak with contempt of the war which I am waging against a woman. They are ignorant both of the character and of the power of Zenobia. It is impossible to enumerate her warlike preparations of stones, of arrows, and of every species of missile weapons. Every part of the walls is provided with two or three balistce, and artificial fires are thrown from her military engines.
Page 131 - Lylliard lies under this stane, Little was her stature, but great was her fame ; Upon the English louns she laid mony thumps, And when her legs were cutted off, she fought upon her stumps.
Page 192 - Lorraine was for centuries a subject of dispute between France and Germany. It was, for a long time, a fief of the German empire. On the death of Charles the Bold, duke of Lorraine, in 1431, without male heirs, the country was inherited by his daughter Isabella. The two grandsons of her sonin-law Frederic—Antony and CJaude— founded, in 1508, the principal and collateral Lorraine lines, the latter of which...
Page 194 - They immediately drew their swords, and our heroine had the advantage of him ; when, after having disarmed him, she said with a very gracious smile, "You thought, sir, I make no doubt, that you were fighting with Le Chevalier de...
Page 214 - Justice of his late Majesty's Court of Common Pleas, and of the Privy Council to his late Majesty King Charles the First, of blessed memory; who, having had the honour to have borne, with a constancy and courage above her sex, a noble proportion of the late calamities, and the happiness to have outlived them so far as to have seen the restitution of the government, with great peace of mind laid down her most desired life, the 19th day of April, 1661.
Page 124 - The Countess of Montfort came down from the castle to meet them, and with a most cheerful countenance, kissed Sir Walter Manny, and all his companions, one after the other like a noble and valiant dame.
Page 216 - She would willingly submit herself to her lord's commands, and therefore willed the general to treat with him ; but till she was assured that such was his lordship's pleasure, she would neither yield up the house nor desert it herself, but wait for the event according to the good will of God.
Page 195 - The officer, not caring to show his face in the vicinity, disappeared immediately, and was never heard of again. Barbara's reputation was considerably raised by this duel. Several gentlemen in the neighborhood gathered and put themselves under her orders. At their head, she made frequent raids into those parts of the country occupied by the French. She was always victorious, and almost invariably brought home some trophies in arms or baggage, for, in addition to courage, she possessed great prudence...
Page 185 - ... Queen's Thorn on the hill, behind the ruined keep of Cathcart Castle, as the precise spot whence Mary witnessed the ruin of her cause at Langside, and there is no reason to doubt the possibility of her having retreated from Castlemilk to Cathcart when she found the fortunes of the day going against her. Brantome declares " the Queen-mother of France assured him ' that Mary mounted her good hackney, and rode into the battle like another Zenobia, to encourage her troops to advance, and would fain...
Page 179 - Grace in her youth frequently accompanied her father on these expeditions, and after his death, her brother being a minor, she took upon herself the command of her galleys, and made with her crews many bold expeditions ; her chief rendezvous was at Clare Island off the coast of Mayo, where she kept her large vessels moored, and had a fortress...