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Florentia Sale
Sale by Richard Thomas Bott, 1844
Born
Florentia Wynch

(1790-08-13)13 August 1790
Madras, Tamil Nadu, India
Died6 July 1853(1853-07-06) (aged 62)
Cape Town, South Africa
NationalityBritish
Notable workA Journal of the Disasters in Afghanistan, 1841–2
SpouseSir Robert Henry Sale (1809–1845)

Florentia Sale, Lady Sale (née Wynch; 13 August 1790 – 6 July 1853)[1][2] was an Englishwoman who travelled the world while married to her husband, Sir Robert Henry Sale, a British army officer. She was dubbed "the Grenadier in Petticoats"[3] for her travels with the army, which took her to regions such as Mauritius, Burma, Afghanistan, India, and various other areas under the control of the British Empire.

  1. ^ Vetch, R. H. (1885–1900). "Sale, Robert Henry" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  2. ^ "Sale, Sir Robert Henry". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/24533. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  3. ^ Hugh Williams (2008), Fifty Things You Need to Know About British History, HarperCollins, pp. 302–303, ISBN 978-0-00-727841-1

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