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A Gallery of Ancient, Medieval, & Modern Warrior Women

The first female warrior attested to historically is Queen Ahhotep I of Egypt (l. c. 1570-1530 BCE) who put down a rebellion by the Hyksos when her son, Ahmose I, was campaigning against the Nubians. In literature, the first mention of women warriors comes from Homer's Iliad (8th century BCE), which references the Amazons.

Whether attested to by historical or literary documents, women warriors are nothing new. According to Greek mythology, Epipole of Carystus disguised herself as a man to fight in the Trojan War, and the Assyrian queen regent Sammu-Ramat (r. 811-806 BCE) is said to have led troops and is also believed to be the inspiration for the legendary warrior queen Semiramis. It is possible that Queen Hatshepsut of Egypt (r. 1479-1458 BCE) did the same long before Sammu-Ramat, but this has been challenged.

Recent criticism claiming that women warriors are somehow an invention of 21st-century revisionist historians is untenable as historical and literary works spanning thousands of years argue otherwise. The following image gallery presents a sample of ancient, medieval, and modern warrior women from around the world.

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Anne Bonny X Mar Read from the sapphic pirate musical, The Legend of Anne Bonny

Forever in love with these two. Think Sunshine X Grumpy but more like if it were Flamethrower Warlord X Brooding Survivalist LOL

Art by Tori Goggins!

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Happy International Women's day to y'all the ladies out there! ❤

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#Repost @ofgrave.concern ・・・ 18th November 1720, English pirate Captain John Rackham, also known as Calico Jack, due to his choice of calico clothing, is executed for piracy in Port Royal at the age of 37. Calico Jack operated from the Bahamas from 1718-1720, in the last period of the Golden Age of piracy. After serving as a quartermaster on fellow pirate Charles Vane's sloop Ranger in 1718, Rackhman deposed Vane of his captaincy. While in Nassau in 1720 Rackham met and started an affair with Anne Bonny who joined his crew. Aboard Rackham’s ship ‘The Revenge’ also was Mark Read, who it was discovered was Mary Read. Read and Bonny are the only two women known to have been convicted of piracy during the early 18th century. After execution his body was then gibbeted on display on a small strip of land outside the port known ever since as Rackham's Cay. 22nd November 1718, death of the pirate Edward Teach, more famously known as Blackbeard, who operated around the West Indies and the eastern coast of the American colonies; in a captured French merchant vessel renamed the Queen Anne's Revenge. Using his thick black beard from where he lit fuses to make his head smoke, he garnered a fearsome appearance, utilizing that appearance alone rather than using force or violence. This tatic worked, for although he and his crew were able to capture numerous vessels they did so with no historical record of torture or murder. On this day, during a ferocious battle, Teach and several of his crew were killed by a small force of sailors led by Lieutenant Robert Maynard of the British Royal Navy. Upon his death Maynard beheaded Teach, and displayed the head from the front of his ship. Continued in comments #pirate #piratesofthecaribbean #pirates #mutineer_bay #pirateart #pirateart #piratehistory #annebonny #maryread #jackrackham #jollyroger #skullandcrossbones #historyofpirates #danieldefoe #pirateflag #darkhistory #history #goldenageofpiracy #seadogs #pirateartist #piratestyle #piratelife #piratenation #pirategraphic #illustration #illustrationartists #illustrationart #darkillustration #blackbeard #edwardteach https://www.instagram.com/p/CKXVQaEDmaa/?igshid=k24vj7ui42jg

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Seven Notorious Women Pirates

In this article, we look at the lives and deeds of seven notorious women pirates. There is Teuta, the Balkan enemy of ancient Rome; Alwilda, the Scandinavian princess who chose a life of crime on the High Seas; Maria Lindsey, who terrorized the northern Atlantic; the Irish pirate and folk hero Grace O'Malley; the widow Zheng Yi Sao, who led a huge Chinese pirate fleet; and two figures from the Golden Age of Piracy (1690-1720) in the Caribbean: Anne Bonny and Mary Read.

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Mary Read

Mary Read, sometimes spelt Reade (b. c. 1690), was an infamous pirate during the Golden Age of Piracy (1690-1720) active in the Bahamas until her capture by the Jamaican authorities in 1720. As partner to the English pirate John Rackham, aka 'Calico Jack' (d. 1720), Read dressed as a man in battle and fought courageously in her last stand against the authorities while her fellow male pirates hid below decks.

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