Lest I forget…

Mary Anne Talbot, remembered to this day as “Powder Monkey Anne,” served as a drummer boy in the battle for Valenciennes, and fought in the battle of Ushant, among other naval engagements during the Napoleonic Wars. She lived to the ripe age of ninety-seven. The principal duty of a powder monkey was to carry bags of gunpowder from the vessel’s below-deck magazine to the gun deck above. Sounds like a really shitty job.