Warrior Women

This compilation would not be complete without including Boudica of the Britons, also including from the same era are two others who resisted the Romans who were determined to impose the ways of Rome on the country and culture: Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra and Mavia of the Tanukhids, (Saracens, who led a similar revolt against the Romans, one hundred years after Zenobia. From Asia, read of Nakano Takedo, who fought to uphold the shogun and Samurai Traditions. She led a squad of woman against riflemen of the Imperial army of Emperor Meiji, armed with only her naginata, the traditional Samurai pole weapon, in the Boshin Wat. Also, from this region, and the authors favourite, Ba Trieu, the Korean warrior who resisted the Chinese invasion in the third century. She must have looked magnificent as she rode into battle on her great war-elephant, with her yellow cloak billowing in the breeze.