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    resignation from service in January 1808, settled with him in Lille. A Marie-Jeanne Schellinck is often reported to have been decorated with the Legion of Honor...
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  • She is known as one of the three women (alongside Anne Biget and Marie-Jeanne Schellinck) rumoured to have been given the Legion of Honour by Napoleon I...
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    lieutenant, and in 1857 awarded the Saint Helena medal. 1805: Marie-Jeanne Schellinck served in the Battle of Austerlitz. 1806: Manuela Pedraza fought...
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  • Braddock and Mrs. Elphinstone fight a duel in England. 1792–1808: Marie-Jeanne Schellinck serves in French army. She participates in the Battle of Jemappes...
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    Napoleonic Wars, though her public fame faded quickly. Franziska Scanagatta Marie Schellinck Nadezhda Durova Keubke, Klaus Ulrich; Poblenz, Uwe (2009). Die Freikorps...
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    marine battalions and sergeant's insignia on her women's clothes. Marie Schellinck (1757–1840) was a Belgian woman who fought in the French Revolution...
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