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In the 1740s, Hannah Snell, disguised as a man, signed up with the Warwickshire Regiment in Coventry. More than two hundred years before the British Army officially accepted women in combat roles, she fought in battles. Her highly eventful career was described in a book she wrote which made her an eighteenth-century celebrity.
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Friends' Meeting House, Hill Street, Coventry, CV1 4AN, UK, United Kingdom
