Vivandière
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Vivandière or cantinière is a French name for women who are attached to military regiments as sutlers or canteen keepers. Their actual historic functions of selling wine to the troops and working in c
A French cantinière in the Crimea during the Crimean War in 1855, photographed by Roger Fenton
A vivandière (left) with French Imperial Army soldiers
The Siege of Antwerp by Horace Vernet. A cantinière can be seen on the right tending to wounded soldiers
A Sweet Caporal cigarette card (1896) of a cantinière of 1853
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Camp followers are civilians who follow armies. There are two common types of camp followers; first, the spouses and children of soldiers, who follow their spouse or parent's army from place to place;
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1798 illustration of camp followers washing clothes at a British Army camp
Painting of camp followers during the Thirty Years' War
Camp follower (left) in 1862 during the American Civil War
American military brats in 2024