Blanche of Castile
Blanche of Castile (1187-1252), Queen of France
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Joan of Arc
Joan of Arc, or Jeanne d’Arc, the Maid of Orleans (1412-1431) a French heroine and martyr.
Agnes Macready
Agnes Macready should be regarded as the first Australian woman war correspondent, although there was no official system at this time for accreditation.
Louise Labé
French poet. At the siege of Perpignan she is said to have fought on horseback in the ranks of the Dauphin.
Jessie Bicknell
Jessie Bicknell helped establish postgraduate and specialist training for nurses in New Zealand.
Hēni Te Kiri Karamū
Te Arawa woman of mana, teacher, warrior, interpreter
Sikelgaita
Sikelgaita was a Lombard princess who commanded troops in her own right.
Frumka Płotnicka
Frumka Płotnicka was a Polish resistance fighter during World War II and Zionist activist. She was one of the resistance organizers in the Warsaw Ghetto, and participated in the military preparations for the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
Ho Thi Que
Ho Thi Que, the Tiger Lady of the Mekong Delta, was a master sergeant during the Vietnam War. Her South Vietnamese 44th Ranger Battalion, also known as “The Black Tigers” fought against the Viet Cong, who nicknamed her “Madame Death”.
Hōjō Masako
Hōjō Masako, known as the “nun shogun”, exercised significant political power in the early years of the Kamakura period (1192 to 1333).