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Anne Holland: The Secret of Kit Cavenaugh: A Remarkable Irishwoman and Soldier [2013] hardback SHIST others have called it aChristian `Kit' Cavenaugh, born in 1667 in Dublin, grew up on a Leixlip farm. A dragoon in the Marlborough Wars, Kit led an adventurous life, courting women, fighting duels and arguing a paternity suit before the truth became known: Kit was a woman. After her husband and father of her three children, Richard Welsh, was press ganged into the English army to fight in the European wars of the early eighteenth century, Kit disguised herself as a man and