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Women have participated in warfare in a variety of ways in different times and places. This is a list of some notable events related to this.

1 Ancient Greece

The Amazons, a legendary tribe of warrior women.
Amastris , wife of Dionysius of Heracluria established her own city state by conquering and uniting 4 settlements.
5th century BC - Telessilla ( a warrior poet) defended the city of Argos by rallying women with war songs.

2 Roman Republic and Empire

Boudicca, a Celtic chieftain in Britain, leads an uprising against the occupying Roman forces.
Fulvia, wife of Marcus Antonius, organizes an uprising against Octavian

3 Fifteenth and Sixteenth century

1428 Joan of Arc (Jehanne la Pucelle) led the French Army to victory against the English, recapturing Orleans. In May 1431 she was burned at the stake in Rouen.

1572 In defence of the city during a siege of Haarlem by Spanish troops, which lasted from december 1572 to 1573, Kenau Simonsdochter Hasselaer (1526-1588) led a force of 300 women.

4 Dahomey

From the 17th century up to 1894Events January 8 A fire at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago causes a good deal of damage. January 9 New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first battery-operated telephone switchboard ( Lexington, Massachusetts). February 15 04:51 GMT the Dahomey AmazonsThe Dahomey Amazons were a Fon all-female military regiment of the Kingdom of Dahomey (now Benin) which lasted until end of the 19th century. They were so named due to their similarity to the semi-mythical Amazons of Ancient Greece. History King Houegbadj were an all female regiment (under female command) of the west African Kingdom of DahomeyDahomey was an African kingdom situated in what is now Benin. The kingdom was founded in the seventeenth century and survived until the late nineteenth century, when it was conquered by French troops from Senegal and incorporated into France's West Africa.

5 Crimea

1854Events January 13 The accordion is patented by Anthony Faas. February 11 Major streets lit by coal gas for first time. February 14 Texas is linked by telegraph with the rest of the United States, when a connection between New Orleans and Marshall, Texas i - Florence NightingaleFlorence Nightingale ( May 12, 1820 August 13, 1910) The Lady With The Lamp was the pioneer of modern nursing. Born into a wealthy and well-connected British family in Florence, Italy, she was named after the city of her birth, as was her older sister bor (a British nurse) revolutionises both the care of sick soldiers in the Crimean WarThe Crimean War lasted from 1854 to 1856. It was fought between Russia and an alliance of the United Kingdom, France, and the Ottoman Empire, joined somewhat tardily by Piedmont-Sardinia. The majority of the conflict took place around the Crimean peninsul, but also expectations of the role of women of her status.

6 World War II

The Soviet forces had a significant number of women serving, including an entire air force regiment of female fighter pilots, the 586th fighter regiment. There are also accounts of very successful female snipers.

Many women served in the French ResistanceThe French Resistance was the resistance movement that fought military occupation of France by Nazi Germany and the resulting Vichy France during World War II after France surrendered in 1940. French Resistance cooperated with Allied secret services (see, Polish Resistance and Italian Resistance in World War IIWorld War II was the most extensive and costly armed conflict in the history of the world, involving the great majority of the world's nations, being fought simultaneously in several major theatres, and costing tens of millions of lives. The war was fough.

May 14, 1948 - The Israeli Defense Force is founded, at this point it has one female combat pilot, and a draft of both men and women. Most women serve in non-combat positions, and serve only 2 years (instead of three for men). Israel remains the only country to conscript women.

7 21st Century

2003 - Brig. Gen. Janis Karpinski is in charge of the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, where prisoners were abused.
2003 - Jessica Lynch, a U.S. soldier, is embroiled in a controversy over differing accounts of her capture and rescue in Iraq.

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