Ann Mills: Secret Sailor of the Maidstone

History remembers Ann Mills holding a cutlass in one hand and the severed head of a Frenchman in the other. Almost everything that happened before and after that moment has been lost.Born sometime in the early eighteenth century, Ann Mills vanished into one of the most dangerous occupations available to anyone of her generation. Disguised as a man, she went to sea and became what a later account c...