Women in 18th-century warfare

influential female Chinese pirate

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.

queen of Indore

Indian queen and freedom fighter

Filipina insurgent leader

ruler of Sardhana, Meerut (c. 1753–1836)

poet

Bolivian revolutionary

martyr of Peruvian independence

Sikh warrior

Indian fighter

Afghan poet and writer (1651–1717)

Rani of Sarkar-e-Khalsa

leader of Windward Maroons in Jamaica

Indigenous leader in 18th century Bolivia

Colombian revolutionary

how women shared in the French Revolution and what long-term impact it had on French women

Swedish soldier

Hangbe (or Hangbè, also Ahangbe or Na Hangbe) was a woman who served as the ruler of the Kingdom of Dahomey for a brief period before Agaja came to power in 1718. Oral traditions depict Hangbe variously as a regent or as a ruler in her own right. According to oral tradition, she became ruler upon the sudden death of King Akaba because his oldest son, Agbo Sassa, was not yet of age. The duration of her rule is unclear. She supported Agbo Sassa in a succession struggle against Agaja, who ultimately became king. Hangbe's legacy lives on in oral tradition, but little is known about her rule becaus

British wartime cross-dresser, died 1808

Dutch writer

Portuguese woman soldier who dressed as a man

Georgian noblewoman

French soldier

Belgian soldier (1757-1840)

Swedish military officer

Qing Dynasty rebel

leader of the Quilombo do Piolho

Bulgarian rebel soldier

soldier

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

Matamba queen

Toypurina (1760–1799) was a Kizh medicine woman from the Jachivit village. She is notable for her opposition to the colonial rule by Spanish missionaries in California, and for her part in the planned 1785 rebellion against the Mission San Gabriel. She recruited six of the eight villages whose men participated in the attack.

Nicaraguan rebel (1742-1805)

Sikh warrior

Hero Memorial Phuket

world's first female Marine. soldier in the 6th Company of the 11th Marine Battalion

Hungarian countess (1654-1723)

Italian cook

woman of Hungary

Chilean rebel

Swedish female in war

German soldier

Sikh princess

Irish folkhero

Greek heroine

Dutch writer and translator