Women in 17th-century warfare

Ambundu queen in Angola (c. 1583–1663)

participant in the Antinomian Controversy

Fon all-female military regiment of the historical Kingdom of Dahomey

Maharani Tarabai Bhonsle (Marathi: [t̪aːɾabaːi; ; 1675 – 9 December 1761) was the regent of the Maratha Empire from 1700 until 1708. She was the queen of Rajaram I, and daughter-in-law of the kingdom's founder Shivaji I. She is acclaimed for her role in keeping alive the resistance against Mughal rule in Konkan, and acting as the regent of the Maratha Kingdom during the minority of her son, Shivaji II. She defeated Mughal forces of Aurangzeb in several battles and expanded the Maratha Kingdom.

Princess Consort of Transylvania and Croatian noblewoman (1643-1703)

Basque explorer, adventurer, soldier, explorer, memorialist, authorized by Pope Urban VIII to dress like a man

Hausa Muslim Warrior Queen of Zazzau

Galician heroine

Russian military rebel

American woman captured by Native Americans during King Philip's War

or , also known as , was a Japanese historical figure in the late Sengoku period. She was the concubine and the second wife of Japanese ruler Toyotomi Hideyoshi. As the mother of his son and successor Hideyori, she acted as Hideyori's guardian in the restoration of the Toyotomi clan after the fall of the Council of Five Elders, and alongside her son, led the last anti-Tokugawa shogunate resistance in the siege of Osaka.

Chinese female general in Ming dynasty

Sikh warrior

Afghan poet and writer (1651–1717)

Japanese samurai (1569-1602)

noble

Queen of Keladi Kingdom

Mongolian noble

master of the various martial arts & founder of the Wǔ Méi Pài (Ng Mui style), Wing Chun, Dragon style, White Crane, and Five-Pattern Hung Kuen from Shaolin Temple

English soldier

'''' (1573 – March 27, 1620) was a female warrior (onna-musha'') during the Azuchi-Momoyama period and early Edo period. Born the daughter of Honda Tadakatsu, she was adopted by lord Tokugawa Ieyasu, before marrying Sanada Nobuyuki. She is described as having been very beautiful, highly intelligent and skillful in fighting.

Weetamoo (pronounced Wee-TAH-moo) (c. 1635–1676), also referred to as Weethao, Weetamoe, Wattimore, Namumpum, and Tatapanunum, was a Pocasset Wampanoag Native American Chief. She was the sunksqua, or female sachem, of the Pocasset tribe, which occupied contemporary Tiverton, Rhode Island in 1620. The Pocasset, which she led, was one of the tribes of the Wampanoag.

Onamihime (阿南姫, July 4, 1541 – August 30, 1602) was a late-Sengoku period Onna-musha. She was the first daughter of Date Harumune, sister of Date Terumune and aunt of Date Masamune. She was the ruler of Sukagawa castle in Mutsu Province. She was best known for being a potential enemy of her nephew, Masamune, participating in several campaigns against expansion of the Date clan in the region of Ōshū.

warrior queen of Belawadi

French Pirate (1661-1710)

17th-century Brazilian freed slave and warrior

Aqualtune (fl. 1665-75) was a Kongo princess who was the daughter of an unidentified Manikongo. According to the tradition, she was the mother of Ganga Zumba and the maternal grandmother of Zumbi.

female Chinese military commander

sibling group

colonial Massachusetts Puritan

queen of Peninsular Malaysia

Japanese Samurai woman

wife of Maeda Toshiie, Japanese daimyo

Harem-Queen to the Mughal emperor of India Bahadur Shah I

Japanese sword master

Polish heroine of the Polish-Ottoman War

Matamba queen

concubine of Tokugawa Ieyasu

princess consort of Moldavia

Japanese noble lady of the Sengoku period

German soldier

French war hero

Breffu (possibly derived from Twi, Baffour) was an Akwamu leader of the 1733 slave insurrection on St. John (then known as St. Jan) in Danish West Indies. She killed herself with 23 other rebels to evade capture as the rebellion weakened in 1734.

Legendary Albanian historical figure

Princess of Moldavia

Japanese Samurai woman

Canadian battle hero (1678-1747)

indigenous Brazilian warrior

Cockacoeske (pronounced Coke a cow ski) (also spelled Cockacoeskie) () was a 17th-century weroansqua of the Pamunkey tribe in what is now the U.S. state of Virginia. During her thirty-year reign, she worked with the English colony of Virginia, trying to recapture the former power of past paramount chiefs and maintain peaceful unity among the several tribes under her leadership. She was the first of the tribal leaders to sign the Virginia-Indian Treaty of Middle Plantation. In 2004 Cockacoeske was honored as one of the Library of Virginia's "Virginia Women in History".

Mussasa was a 17th-century Imbangala Jagas queen regnant.

Brazilian heroine, famous for her defense of Espírito Santo (1603-1646)

Prillar-Guri or Prillarguri (also spelled Pillarguri) is a legendary figure who according to oral tradition was a woman from Sel, Norway who played a key role in the Battle of Kringen (Slaget ved Kringen) in August 1612.

Acadian heroine and wife of Charles de Saint-Étienne de la Tour

French soldier

actor