The top ten Women Warrior Leaders throughout History

[Ichingcarpenter]

I didn't know about some of these, I gave two examples
but you can see more at the site:


http://listverse.com/history/top-10-badass-female-warriors/



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Trieu Thị Trinh

Triệu Thị Trinh was a Vietnamese warrior from the 3rd century who successfully resisted the occupying forces of the Wu Kingdom during their time in Vietnam. She was born in the Trieu Son district of Thanh Hoa province (now in Northern Vietnam). At the time of her birth, the area was controlled by the Eastern Wu Kingdom, one of China’s three Kingdoms. She was orphaned at a young age and was raised by her brother and his wife as a slave until the age of 20. She escaped from her brother’s home and fled to the jungle where she built up an army of at least 1,000 men and women soldiers. Triệu Trinh managed to liberate an area of Vietnam which she then claimed as her own. By the age of 23 she had defeated at least 30 Wu advances. It was said that she rode in to battle on the back of an elephant whilst wearing golden armor and carrying two swords.




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Zenobia
Septima Zenobia governed Syria from about 250 to 275 AD. She led her armies on horseback wearing full armor and during Claudius’ reign defeated the Roman legions so decisively that they retreated from much of Asia Minor. Arabia, Armenia and Persia allied themselves with her and she declared herself Queen of Egypt by right of ancestry. Claudius’ successor Aurelian sent his most experienced legions to conquer Zenobia but it took almost 4 years of battles and sieges before her capital city of Palmyra fell

[ensho]

1. thank you for the link

nt

[supernova]

2. Awesome article!

Thanks. :D

K&R for the women who fight!

[lame54]

3. Forget women warriors - Check out these women of peace...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XkOeh_WNsQ

[suffragette]

4. Recently, an obituary in my newspaper caught my eye

It was for Pearl Cornioley, who worked with British SOE and the French resistance in WWII.
Note the paragraph in which she talks of the "girls who parachuted into occupied countries."
It really got me thinking on who were these women and what were their stories.



http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/obituaries/2004270344_cornioleyobit09.html

Pearl Cornioley, who parachuted into France as a secret agent during World War II to help arm and organize the Resistance, has died. She was 93.

Mrs. Cornioley was one of Britain's greatest agents operating behind German lines, according to historian Michael R.D. Foot, who has written extensively about British special operations in France.
~snip~
But the award that meant the most to her came when Royal Air Force officers presented her with her parachute wings in 2006 in a ceremony at her Paris retirement home.

"I've been moaning about the fact the girls who parachuted into occupied countries were not allowed to wear the wings when we came back from the field," she said. "I thought it was an injustice and really wrong because we went through the same dangers as the men."


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/02/26/db2601.xml

Her specific role was to act as a courier carrying coded messages. Once she cycled 50 miles to deliver a message, only to find that a bridge she had to cross was heavily guarded. Carrying her bicycle on her shoulders, she waded across the freezing river Cher.

~snip~The network blew up railway lines and disrupted supply routes. "It was our job to stop the Germans getting from the south to the north of France where the landings were happening," Pearl Witherington explained later.

"Our second task was to stop them trying to get back to Germany. Over 18,000 Germans gave themselves up on our territory." So effective was she that the Germans put a price of one million francs on her head.

Pearl Witherington was recommended for a Military Cross but, as a woman, she was deemed ineligible. Instead she was offered a civil MBE, which she refused ("There was nothing civil about what I did, I didn't sit behind a desk all day"). She was then, in 1945, appointed a military MBE.

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5. thank you for this piece of history about WW II women

nt