The New Hampshire Gazette

Berlin, July 14. A young woman aged 23, of a brown complexion, and strong features, who hath served in our troops four years with honour, hath been discharged in Prince Henry's camp. Her name is Anne Sophia Detzleffin, born at Treptow on the Rega. In 1757 she left her father's house, and came to Colberg, where she inlisted in the militia, and served six months. She afterwards inlisted in Prince Frederick's regiment of cuiraissiers, in which she served two years. In a skirmish near Bamberg, she was wounded in her right arm with a sabre. She afterwards fought in the battle of Kunersdorff. Since that time, the corps she belonged to returning to Saxony, she fell dangerously ill there, and was sent to the hospital at Meissen. After her recovery, having no opportunity to rejoin her regiment she inlisted in a battallion of grenadiers which suffered much in the actions at Strehlen and Torgau. In the last of those battles she received two wounds in the head; was made prisoner, and sent to the hospital at Dresden. When she recovered a little, she found means to escape out of the hospital, and passed undiscovered, through the Austrian posts, but instead of going to join her corps, she inlisted with Col. Colignon, who sent her to the regiment of Le Nobles Volunteers, in which she served two months. One of her comrades accusing her (but without foundation) of stealing from him 14d. sterling, a Subaltern put her under arrest: This she could not digest, and sending for the lieutenant, acquainted him with her sex, and told him, that during four years servitude, she had never been put under arrest, nor received a blow for neglect of duty, that she could not put up with this last indignity, and would serve no longer.