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 discovered in prince Henry's camp.
Her name is Anne Sophia Detzleffin, born at Treptow on the Riga. In 1757 she left her father's house, and came to Colberg, where she enlisted in the militia, and served six months. She afterwards enlisted in prince Frederick's regiment of cuirassiers, 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 Kunnersdorff. 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 enlisted in a battalion 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, without being discovered, thro' the Austrian posts, but instead of going to join her corps, she enlisted with colonel Colignon, who sent her to the regiment of Le Noble's 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 her lieutenant, acquainted him with her sex, and told him, that, during four years service, she had never been put under an arrest, nor received a blow for neglect of duty, that she could not put up with this last indignity and would serve no longer.
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