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The greatest female warriors in the history of the world include:

 Lagertha was a Viking shield-maiden and wife of the notorious Viking

Ragnar Lodbrok.
 Joan of Arc helped free France from English rule. Mark Twain called her
the most remarkable person in human history, male or female.
 Grace O’Malley was an Irish pirate queen.
 Anne Bonnie aka Anne Bonny married one pirate, James Bonny, then
became the mistress to "Calico Jack" Rackham. She fought openly as a
female pirate.
 Lady Elizabeth Killigrew took control of a crew of pirates after her
husband’s death and led an attack on a Spanish ship that entered
Falmouth Harbour.
 Lady Fu Hao was a legendary female warrior and general of the Shang
Dynasty. She is the first women recorded in China's written history and
has been suggested as the original Mulan.

 Olga of Kiev aka Elena was born around 890 AD. Her parents were
Varyags or Varangians, a tribe of Norse Vikings who had settled Russia.
She married Prince Igor I, the son of Rurik, the patriarch of Russia’s Rurik
dynasty and the first ruler of Kievan Rus’. With his father’s death, Igor
became the ruler of Kievan Rus’. When a nearby tribe, the Drevlians,
stopped paying tribute, Igor went to demand payment and was
murdered by the Drevlians. After Igor’s death, Olga ruled in his stead.
She began murdering Drevlians with various ruses, burying some of
them alive, burning others to death in a bathhouse, then finally
attacking and killing them by the thousands. She then completed her
revenge by burning Iskorosten, the city where her husband had been
murdered, to the ground.
 Boudicca led a revolt against Rome after Romans stripped and raped
her daughters. Boudicca was a badass who killed an estimated 70,000 to
80,000 Romans; smashed the ninth Legion; torched two of the most
important cities of Roman Britain, including the capital, Camulodunum
(modern Colchester); and almost forced the Romans to withdraw from
England before they finally killed her.
 Mary Read was raised as a boy. She joined the British and Belgian
armies during the Nine Years War. When her ship was captured by
pirates, she became a pirate, sometimes disguised as a man, but also
serving openly as a woman under "Calico Jack" Rackham and Anne
Bonnie. She died in prison in 1721.
 Cleopatra was more than just a pretty face and seductress. She was a
queen in charge of a pivotal nation and its military. During the Roman
civil war, Cleopatra sided with Mark Antony against Octavian.
Chauvinistic Romans were terrified that a woman exerted so much
influence over a prospective Roman ruler.
 Khutulun was a female warrior also known as Aigiarne, Khotol Tsagaan,
Ay Yaruq and Aiyurug. She was a Mongolian princess skilled in
horseback riding, archery and wrestling who lived from around 1260 to
1306. Khutulun would only marry a man who could defeat her in
wrestling and she defeated an estimated 1,000 suitors proving them
unworthy of her! Before you laugh her off, Marco Polo claimed that
Khutulun was agile and deadly in battle.
Zenobia was the Queen of the Palmyrene Empire from 267-272 AD. She conquered
Roman cities and under her rule Palmyra expanded into Syria, Turkey and Egypt.

Queen Ana Nzinga fought fiercely to free Angola from enslavement by the Portuguese.
The portrait below is by François Villain, circa 1800.
Nakano Takeko raised a Jōshitai (“girls’ army”) of several hundred woman that she
commanded during the 1868 Battle of Aizu. Her unit, armed only with naginata (a blade
mounted on a pole), charged an imperial unit armed with rifles, delaying the fall of the
castle. Wounded, she ordered her sister to cut off her head so that it would not be
captured by the imperial troops and put on display.
Eleanor of Aquitaine (1122-1204) was the most eligible bride of her era, twice. As a girl
she became the Duchess of Aquitaine because her father, brother and mother had all
died. Aquitaine was France’s largest and most prosperous Duchy, so the man she
married would acquire vast lands and tremendous wealth. Thus the King of France, Louis
the Fat, wanted her to marry his son Louis, and she did. Just days after their wedding,
Louis the Fat died and in 1137 her husband became King Louis VII of France. In 1145
Eleanor accompanied her husband on the disastrous Second Crusade. It was not a happy
marriage, and in 1152 the Pope agreed to annul it. Because there was no male heir, the
Duchy remained Eleanor’s and she was suddenly in high demand once again. In fact, two
men, Theobald V, Count of Blois and Geoffrey, Count of Nantes attempted to kidnap her
in order to marry her! For protection she turned to Henry, the future King of England.
Eight weeks after the annulment she married Henry and in 1154 he became King Henry II
and she became Queen of England. Eleanor bore Henry eight children. In 1173, she
apparently plotted with her sons Young Henry, Richard and Geoffrey to wage war on her
husband! For the next 16 years she was held prisoner in various locations in England. But
she outlived Henry II, who died in 1189, leaving her son Richard I, known as Richard the
Lionheart, as the undisputed heir. He sent England’s greatest knight, William Marshal, to
make sure his mother was freed. When her son was absent at war, as he often was, she
ruled England in Richard's name, signing herself “Eleanor, by the grace of God, Queen of
England.” When Richard was captured while crusading, she helped raise the immense
ransom that freed him. Eleanor survived Richard and lived well into the reign of her
youngest son, King John.

Queen Teuta of Illyria led the Illyrians to the peak of their power in modern-day
Albania. She conquered Dyrrachium and Phoenice and continued her tribe’s expansion
up the Adriatic coast, largely by giving her pirates free rein to plunder and pillage in the
Mediterranean. She has been called “Pirate Queen Teuta.”
Scathach was a female Irish Celtic whose name means “the shadowy one.” Her weapon
of choice was a gáe bolg, or barbed harpoon. She was said to have instructed Cu
Chulainn in the art of war.

Taytu Betul was the wife of Emperor Menelek II of Ethiopia. She commanded artillery
during the Battle of Adwa in 1896. That battle helped keep Ethiopia free of European
colonization for 40 years.

Khawlah bint al-Azwar led Islamic armies during conquests of Palestine, Syria and
Jordan in the 7th century CE.

Sibylla, the Queen of Jerusalem, personally led the defense of her city against Saladin in
1187.

Jeanne de Belleville was a French/Breton noblewoman also known as Jeanne de Clisson

and the Lioness of Brittany. After the French king, Philip VI, had her husband executed by
beheading for treason, Jeanne sold the Clisson estates, raised a force of 400 men,
outfitted three pirate warships with red and black sails, and began attacking French
holdings in Brittany and French ships at sea. Her small navy was called the Black Fleet.
Jeanne was feared for her cruelty: she would have entire crews murdered, leaving only
one individual alive to convey her messages to the king. One message was that any
nobles aboard had been beheaded, like her husband. Jeanne’s flagship, My Revenge, was
eventually sunk by the French and she and her two sons were set adrift for five days. Her
younger son Guillaume. She and her older son Olivier were finally rescued. She then
continued her piracies for another 13 years. Olivier Clisson, known as “The Butcher,” went
on to become the Constable of France and coregent of Brittany. He was noted for his
cruelty, as his sobriquet suggests. Like mother, like son?

Seh-Dong-Hong-Beh led 6,000 Dahomey Amazons in the 1851 battle of Abeokuta.

When Anne Marie Louise d'Orléans, the Duchess of Montpensier, arrived at Orléans in
1652, the city gates were locked and the city refused to open them. She shouted that the
gates should be opened, but she was ignored. A boatman offered to row her to the
Porte de La Faux. She got onboard "climbing like a cat" and "jumping over the hedge."
She entered the city and was greeted triumphantly, after which she took command of
the troops there. When she returned to Paris, she fired a cannon from the Bastille on the
army of Turenne, during the Battle of the Faubourg Saint Antoine in 1652, thus saving
the army of Louis II de Bourbon, Prince de Condé, from annihilation.

Agustina de Aragón has been called the Spanish Joan of Arc. She became a warrior
unexpectedly during the battle of Zaragoza in 1808. An French artillery bombardment
had left the Portillo gate undefended. When French troops charged the gate, she loaded
and fired a cannon by herself, delaying the attack long enough for Spanish fighters,
encouraged by her example, to return to their posts. She was later captured, escaped,
then led guerrillas against the French.

Tomoe Gozen fought in Japan's Genpei War. She fought so well that she was appointed
a captain, then later, a general. She was an Onna-bugeisha or female Samurai and used a
special weapon called a naginata that was designed specifically for women. It was said
that no male warrior could match Tomoe Gozen’s strength and agility.

Mavia took took control of the confederation of Tanukhid tribes, a nomadic people of
modern-day Syria, after her husband’s death and ruled from 375-425 CE. In 378 CE, she
launched a massive revolt against the Eastern Roman Empire. Mavia proved to be an
extremely successful military leader, and she defeated the Romans in open battles and
wore them down using guerilla tactics.

Lozen has been called the “Apache Joan of Arc.” Lozen had an uncanny ability to predict
where enemies were, allowing the Apache forces to stay one step ahead of the US
military. She fought beside the legendary Apache war chief Geronimo until he
surrendered in 1885.

Artemisia I of Caria earned the praise of Xerxes, king of Persia, who remarked on her
cunning: “My men have become women, and women men.”

Ching Shih was a Chinese prostitute who was captured by Zheng Yi, the captain of a
fleet of pirate ships. She married him and later took command of his fleet, which had
nearly 300 ships.

Dorothea Maria Lösch was aboard the Armida during the battle of Battle of Svensksund
in 1791. When the officers had all been killed or abandoned ship, she took command,
rescuing the ship and its crew. She was appointed a master mariner of the Swedish fleet,
the first woman to earn that title.

Rani Velu Nachiyar led a war against the British in India and created an all-female
Udaiyaal army.
Jacquotte Delahaye was left to fend for herself and her brain-damaged brother when
her mother and father both died. She turned to a career in piracy in the Caribbean,
faking her death and pretending to be a man for many years.

Joanna Żubr enlisted in the Polish army as a man to remain with her husband. She
distinguished herself in 1809 during the Battle of Zamość and earned Poland's highest
medal for valor, the Virtuti Militari. She was later promoted to Sergeant.

Gaitana led the Yalcón people in battles against Spanish colonizers in revenge for the
execution of her son.

Ho Lu was mentioned by Sun Tzu, who said she trained 180 women as warriors
sometime in the 4th century BCE.

Catharina Rose led a battalion of women who defended a wall during the siege of Sluis
in 1587.

Cecília Rozgonyi commanded a Hungarian ship while fighting the Ottoman Empire in
1428. Her intervention in the battle of Golubac helped save the life of King Sigismund of
Hungary.

Tribhuwana Wijayatunggadewi crushed a rebellion on Java in 1331, then went on to

greatly expand the Majapahit empire.

Belawadi Mallamma led a female army against the Marathas in 17th century India.

Alyona led 600 Cossacks during the capture of Temnikov in 1670. She shot several
Russian soldiers before being captured and executed.

Awashonks was a female Native American warrior who led the Sakonnet Tribe during
King Phillip's War in 1675.

Anne Dieu-le-Veut was a French privateer (i.e., a licensed pirate) known as “Godless
Anne.”

Ingela Olofsdotter Gathenhielm joined a fleet of Swedish privateers from 1718-1721.

She was known as "the Shipping Queen."

Ahilyabai Holkar was the Queen of Malwa from 1767-1795. She was led armies in the
field.

Mah Laqa Bai was an Urdu poet, courtesan and mounted archer. She served in three
wars and ended up with 500 men under her command.

Wang Cong'er joined the White Lotus Rebellion at age 17, fighting against the Manchu
in 1794. With her skill in Kung Fu and fighting with swords in each hand, she was
considered highly dangerous by the Manchu. Rather than allowing herself to be
captured in 1798, she committed suicide.
Bùi Thị Xuân was a Vietnamese general in charge of 5,000 troops fighting the Nguyen
army. She was captured in 1802 and executed by being crushed to death by an elephant.

María Gertrudis Teodora Bocanegra Mendoza was a well-educated woman who

created an all-female communications network for the revolutionaries during the
Mexican War of Independence. She was executed by the Spanish in 1817.

Emilia Plater was a Polish-Lithuanian countess who joined the November Uprising in
1830, fighting against Tsarist rule. She raised a troop of 280 infantry, 60 cavalry, and
several hundred peasant armed with scythes. She commanded her troops at the battle of
Prastavoniai. Thus she came to the attention of General Dezydery Chłapowski. When she
refused to go home, he made her a captain. She has been called the “Lithuanian Joan of
Arc.”

Kara Fatma was granted permission to join the Turkish Army. She raised a militia of 750
troops, including over 40 women. Her troops fought the Greek army in several battles,
and was one of the first units to enter İzmir in 1922.

Sophie Dorothea Friederike Krüger joined the Prussian army as a man in 1813. Her
voice gave her away, but she remained in the army as a woman, reaching the rank of
corporal. She earned the Iron Cross, the first woman to do so.

Sabiha Gökçen was a Turkish military pilot who became the first female combat pilot in
history. She became a personal favorite of Atatürk, who allowed her to train as a combat
pilot. During the Dersim rebellion of 1937, she dropped bombs on rebels, allegedly
accounting for around 50 casualties.

Margot Delaye lost an arm while defending Montelimar in 1569 CE. A statue was
erected in her honor.

Antónia Rodrigues entered the Portuguese army by pretending to be a man and

earned a medal for her service in Morocco.

Yamamoto Akiko was an Onna-bugeisha (female samurai).

Kit Cavanagh joined the British Army in 1697 and wouldn’t be discovered until being
wounded in 1706. She was buried with full military honors.

Hannah Snell joined the Royal Marines in 1747 and served aboard the H.M.S. Swallow.
She fought in India and was wounded 11 times, including in the groin (a wound she hid
to avoid discovery.) She revealed her sex in 1750 and was awarded a military pension.

Anna Maria Jansdotter Engsten was a maid serving aboard the Swedish fleet. When
her vessel was abandoned and she was left behind in the confusion, she single-handedly
sailed it through the Russian fleet and home to safety!

Marie-Angélique-Joséphine Duchemin enlisted in the French army disguised as a man

in 1792, but her sex was revealed when she was injured in battle. However, she had
proven herself and was allowed to remain, serving openly as a woman. She became a
lieutenant and was inducted as a Knight of the French Legion of Honour by Napoleon III.

Marie-Thérèse Figueur joined the French counter-revolutionaries, serving openly as a

teenage girl in her uncle's artillery unit in 1791. In 1793 she was captured and switched
sides, joining the cavalry. She remained in the army until 1815 and suffered multiple
injuries during the Napoleonic Wars. Her last service was as part of Napoleon's personal
guard.

Nadezhda Andreyevna Durova enlisted in the Russian army as a man in 1807. She
served during the Prussian war of 1806-07 as a cavalryman. Her family revealed that
there was an "amazon" serving in the army. Tsar Alexander I took a personal interest in
the matter, awarded her the Cross of St. George and promoted her to lieutenant. She
retired as a captain after being wounded in the French invasion of 1812. She was buried
with full military honors.

Manono II joined her husband in rebellion against the Hawaiian king. She died in the
1819 battle of Kuamoʻo.

Margaret Ann Bulkley adopted the name James Miranda Stuart Barry around age 18.
She served as a surgeon in the British Army and rose to the rank of Inspector General in
charge of military hospitals. Her sex would not be discovered until her death at age 75 in
1865.

Rayna Kasabova joined the Bulgarian Air Force in 1912 during the First Balkan War as a
the 15-year-old girl. She became the first woman to participate in aerial scouting and
bombing missions.

Ecaterina Teodoroiu was a Romanian army nurse who chose to join the infantry during
the Jiu Valley battle of 1916. She would remain a member of the infantry until her death
in combat in 1917 as a second lieutenant in command of a 25-man platoon. She received
the Military Virtue Medal, 1st Class.

Suzanne Bélair served as a sergeant under her husband, who was a general under
Toussaint Louverture. When she was captured in 1805 by the French, her husband
surrendered so that he could be with her. Both were executed as rebels.

Céleste Bulkeley served in the Catholic and Royal Army during the French Revolution of
1793.

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My vote goes to a female, Soviet sniper who recorded 309 wartime kills and was aptly
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This female sniper was also the first Soviet citizen received in the United States by
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She also received the “Hero of the Soviet Union” award, the highest distinction given by
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தமிழன் என்றோர் இனமுண்டு; தனியே அவற்கொரு குணமுண்டு; Author

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Who were the greatest female warriors in the history of the world?

Can’t say if she was the greatest, but by far the most courageous, intelligent and
destructive among the female warriors, who single handedly caused the defeat of a great
global empire in warfare.

Kuyili - Wikipedia

Unlike others mentioned in the answers Kuyili was not a queen, or even had royal blood
or lineage in her. In fact she was born in the untouchable subaltern community of
“Arunthathiyars” presently classified as “Dalit” or scheduled caste. She was among the
trusted body guards of the warrior queen Velu Nachiyar of Sivaganga in the present day
Tamil Nadu in India, who was famous for fighting and defeating the British East India
Company in the 18 th century to reclaim the kingdom of her slain husband. Kuyili grew
closer to the queen and won her trust, as she saved the life of the queen by risking her
own life on more than one occasion. This helped elevate her to the coveted position of
the Commander-in-Chief of the women’s wing of the queen’s army and took regular part
in the wars against the combined forces of the British East India Company and the
Nawab of Arcot!

This is when Kuyili formulated her strategy. She gathered information about women
being allowed into the The Sivagangai kottai (fort), which was against the norm. As it was
the 10th day of Navaratri, women across the kingdom were allowed inside in order to
celebrate the Vijayadasimi festival which was celebrated in the temple of Rajarajeswari
Amman. Kuyili took use of this golden opportunity and planned a surprise attack on the
British. She led her army who were dressed as civilians and were unnoticed by the British
army who were swarming around the fort. Having hidden the weapons inside the flower
and the fruit-baskets, the women entered the fort and on the Queen’s cue, attacked the
British.

The British army, taken by surprise, were forced into a battle they were unprepared for.
Kuyili, who had already made note of the location of the storage area where the
weapons were kept, formulated another plan. She made use of the chaotic surroundings
and made her comrades pour ghee and oil all over her that were kept for the burning of
the lamps. She then went inside the storage area and set herself on fire. She destroyed
all the weapons and left the British army completely vulnerable. Her bravery and
brilliance allowed Velu Nachiyar to not only win the battle, but also reclaim her fort and
her kingdom.

Kuyili: The Dalit Commander Whose Sacrifice Remains An Unsung Tale |

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This brave sacrifice ofKuyili in the cause of her motherland makes her one of the earliest
freedom fighters even before what is generally considered the India's first war of
independence and also gives her the distinction of first human bomb in the history of
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Nadu has erected a Memorial for her in Sivaganga to commemorate her valor.
(The Memorial for Kuyili in Sivaganga, Tamil Nadu”)

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female military commanders, secondly female fighters in the ranks of the military.

Females who achieved much in the position of military commander

I don’t want to start of on a sexist note, but I have to be objective. I thought back and
forth to try to think of the greatest female commander in human history, and I simply
could not think of any.

Don’t get me wrong, there have been females in positions of power, commanding
armies.

But the mai

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In world history there must have been numerous female warriors. However, my
knowledge of them is limited, but, I know of numerous INDIAN FEMALE
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RANI (Queen) ABBAKKA of Chowta: This is one of the endearing stories of the early
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Without one single doubt the warrior princess “Khutulun”. She makes the fictional “Zena”
look like a prepubescent private school girl.

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Ziaddinè Chahoudi

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I guess most people have perfect answers, but I would take a better example to see why
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The Trung Sisters…

…and Madam Trieu.

They can be considered as some of the greatest and most badass women in the history.
Moreover, they went become legendary more than 2.000 years ago.

Those Vietnamese women both share the same story.

Their country then went under rule of several Chinese dynasties, and both grew great
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After the murders of some of their relatives to the Chinese, they rose up, rode their
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Bob Dekle

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I see that a self-described Brit has voted for the Warrior-Queen Boudicca, who got
defeated by the Romans. The French would probably vote for the Maid of Orleans, Joan
of Arc, who unsuccessfully fought the English during the 100 Years War. The Greeks
would probably vote for the Amazon Queen Penthiselea, who died before the walls of
Troy at the hands of Achilles. Jews might favor Deborah, because Barak refused to fight
Sisera without her at his side.

I’d probably go with Queen Artemesia of Halicarnassus. Although an ethnic Greek, she
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Noor Inayat Khan, hailing from a princely Muslim family, she worked as a special agent
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French resistance. Later captured and tortured to death at Dachau.

Rani Laxmibai of Jhansi, one of India's most heroic woman fighters, whose name has
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Begum Hazrat Mahal, the Begum of Oudh, who rebelled against the East India
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Aditi

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Rosa Parks is the first name that comes to my mind.

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1955. This made the U.S. Supreme Court declare Montgomery’s segregated seating
unconstitutional in 1956, making Parks famous as the “mother of the civil rights
movement.”

Her words are still a source of inspiration for so many people, “Each person must live
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