
The Napoleonic Wars: everything you wanted to know
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Women's Contribution to the War
A working classwomenif if i can call them that without being too anachronistic, wern't often more directly for the war effort. A t they did all kinds of things to kind of galvanize public opinion to help the war efforta producing uniforms, raising money and those sorts of things. And a very small number of women actually fought. There's one case of a russian woman fighting with the russian cavalry in 18 12.
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