About the Author

Linda Grant De Pauw is President of the Minerva Center (an institution dedicated to studies of women in the military) and Professor Emeritus of History at George Washington University. She is the author of Founding Mothers: Women of America in the Revolutionary Era, ""Remember the Ladies"": Women in America, 1750-1815, and Seafaring Women.

Reviews

"The analytical framework on which De Pauw hangs the narrative and anecdotes ... allows [her] to cover not just women in combat, disguised and not, but also women as spies, nurses, and camp followers". -- Booklist