Gwenllian ferch Gruffydd was Princess consort of Deheubarth in Wales. Often accompanying her husband on " lightning raids," in 1136 she raised an army herself and led the forces in the battle near Kidwelly Castle. [25] [26] Though defeated, her patriotic revolt inspired others in South Wales to rise. [25] Their battle cry became, "Revenge for Gwenllian!" [27] The word glaúx ( γλαύξ, [66] "little owl") [67] is from the same root, presumably according to some, because of the bird's own distinctive eyes. Athena was associated with the owl from very early on; [68] in archaic images, she is frequently depicted with an owl perched on her hand. [68] Through its association with Athena, the owl evolved into the national mascot of the Athenians and eventually became a symbol of wisdom. [4] Tritogeneia

Similar stories of a female warrior who hunted the now submerged land between the Outer Hebrides and St Kilda are reported from Harris. [33] Historical Czech Lands [ edit ] In Homer's epic works, Athena's most common epithet is Glaukopis ( γλαυκῶπις), which usually is translated as, "bright-eyed" or "with gleaming eyes". [63] The word is a combination of glaukós ( γλαυκός, meaning "gleaming, silvery", and later, "bluish-green" or "gray") [64] and ṓps ( ὤψ, "eye, face"). [65] Gudit (Ge'ez: Yodit, Judith) is a semi-legendary, non-Christian, Beta Israel, queen (flourished c.960) who laid waste to Aksum and its countryside, destroyed churches and monuments, and attempted to exterminate the members of the ruling Axumite dynasty. Her deeds are recorded in the oral tradition and mentioned incidentally in various historical accounts. Rani Durgavati (1524–1564) was a Queen of Gondwana known for resisting the invasions of Bayazid Baz Bahadur Khan of the Malwa Sultanate and Mughal emperor Akbar. Sun Shangxiang, who is often depicted as a tomboy, was the sister of the warlord Sun Quan. She received extensive martial arts training, and her maidservants were armed with weapons, which was odd for her time.Hua Mulan was a (possibly legendary) woman who went to war disguised as a man, and was able to return home after years of war without being found out. Sarraounia Mangou, chief/priestess of the animist Azna subgroup of the Hausa, who fought French colonial troops of the Voulet–Chanoine Mission at the Battle of Lougou (in present-day Niger) in 1899. She is the subject of the 1986 film Sarraounia based on the novel of the same name by Nigerien writer Abdoulaye Mamani. [5]

Phuket History". 6 November 2009. Archived from the original on 6 November 2009 . Retrieved 27 August 2018. Efunroye Tinubu was a powerful titled aristocrat in Colonial Nigeria. As the first Iyalode of Egbaland, she and her private battalion fought against the Dahomeyans when they invaded Abeokuta in the 1850s and the 1860s. Artemisia I of Caria was a queen of the ancient Greek city-state of Halicarnassus and of the nearby islands of Kos, Nisyros and Kalymnos, within the Achaemenid satrapy of Caria, in about 480 BC. She was of Carian-Greek ethnicity by her father Lygdamis I, and half-Cretan by her mother. She was the first woman admiral. She fought as an ally of Xerxes I, King of Persia against the independent Greek city states during the second Persian invasion of Greece. She personally commanded her contribution of five ships at the naval battle of Artemisium and in the naval Battle of Salamis in 480 BC. She is mostly known through the writings of Herodotus, himself a native of Halicarnassus, who praises her courage and the respect in which Xerxes held her. La Fraila lived in Valdepeñas as Juana Galán did. During the Spanish War of Independence offered food and rest in Valdepeñas' hermitage to the French soldiers. When they were sleeping, La Fraila (which is an alias and her actual name is unknown) closed the doors and set the hermitage on fire using gunpowder as vengeance of her son's death by the French army. She died in the fire as well. al-Baladhuri 892 [19–20] from The Origins of the Islamic State, being a translation from the Arabic of the Kitab Futuh al-Buldha of Ahmad ibn-Jabir al-Baladhuri, trans. by P. K. Hitti and F. C. Murgotten, Studies in History, Economics and Public Law, LXVIII (New York, Columbia University Press, 1916 and 1924), I, 207–211 "Medieval Sourcebook: Al-Baladhuri: The Battle of the Yarmuk (636)". Archived from the original on 11 October 2013 . Retrieved 7 February 2016.Enyo, a minor war goddess, delights in bloodshed and the destruction of towns, and accompanies Ares—said to be her father, in other accounts her brother—in battles. Maria Bonita, a member of a Cangaço band, marauders and outlaws who terrorized the Brazilian Northeast in the 1920s and 1930s. Maria Bonita means "Beautiful Maria". She has the status of a 'folk heroine' in Brazil. Rani Rudrama Devi (1259–1289) was one of the most prominent rulers of the Kakatiya dynasty on the Deccan Plateau, is one of the few ruling queens in Indian history. She was born, as Rudrama, to King Ganapathideva (or Ganapatideva, or Ganapathi Devudu). As Ganapathideva had no sons, Rudrama was formally designated as a son through the ancient Putrika ceremony and given the male name of Rudradeva. When she was only fourteen years old, Rani Rudrama Devi succeeded her father. Rudramadevi was married to Veerabhadra, Eastern Chalukyan prince of Nidadavolu. [58] Deborah Sampson, first known female to fight in the American military (after disguising herself as a man)