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Avantibai ( –1857) was a warrior who raised an army of 4000 and defeated British forces in a battle in Mandla district, Madhya Pradesh during the India Rebellion of 1857. Uda Devi ( –1857) was a warrior who fought in the Battle of Sikandar Bagh in November 1857, part of the India Rebellion of 1857.
Cimbrian women accompanied their men into war, created a line in battle with their wagons and fought with poles and lances, [145] as well as staves, stones, and swords. [146] When the Cimbrian women saw that defeat was imminent, they killed their children and committed suicide rather than be taken as captives. [147]
Battle Cries and Lullabies: Women in War from Prehistory to the Present (University of Oklahoma Press, 1998), popular history by a leading scholar; Dugaw, Dianne. Warrior Women and Popular Balladry: 1650–1850 (Cambridge University Press, 1989) Fraser, Antonia. The Warrior Queens (Vintage Books, 1990)
1180–1185: Female Japanese warrior Tomoe Gozen fights in the Genpei War alongside men. [83] 1172: Aldruda, Countess of Bertinoro commanded the army that fought to lift an imperial siege of the town of Aucona in 1172. [84] 1182–1199: Hōjō Masako rides with her spouse Minamoto no Yoritomo on his campaigns and was never defeated in battle. [85]
European merchants recorded their presence. According to tradition, her brother and successor King Agaja successfully used them in Dahomey's defeat of the neighbouring kingdom of Savi in 1727. [5] The group of female warriors was referred to as Mino, meaning "Our Mothers" in the Fon language, by the male army of Dahomey. [6]
In 378, Queen Mavia led a rebellion against the Roman army [11] and defeated them repeatedly. The Romans finally negotiated a truce with her on her conditions. [12] In the 7th century, the warrior queen and religious leader Dihya led Berber resistance against the Muslim conquest of the Maghreb.
Khawla bint al-Azwar (Arabic: خولة بنت الازور; died 639), was an Arab Muslim warrior in the service of the Rashidun Caliphate. She played a major role in the Muslim conquest of the Levant, and fought alongside her brother Dhiraar. She has been described as one of the greatest female soldiers in history.
In Greek mythology, an Amazonomachy (English translation: "Amazon battle"; plural, Amazonomachiai (Ancient Greek: Ἀμαζονομαχίαι) or Amazonomachies) is a mythological battle between the ancient Greeks and the Amazons, a nation of all-female warriors.