Anne Mills, woman who served as a common sailor on board the frigate HMS Maidstone in a sea battle against the French. Depicted holding a cutlass and the severed head of a Frenchman. Copperplate engraving from John Caulfield's Portraits, Memoirs and Characters of Remarkable Persons, Young, London, 1819.

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