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    The Dahomey Amazons were an all-female army that defended the Kingdom of Dahomey in West Africa from the 17th to 19th centuries. As the kingdom suffered from a shortage of men, women were recruited into the army and became formidable warriors. They were trained from a young age to be strong, fearless, and merciless fighters. Armed with muskets and machetes, the Dahomey Amazons were a feared fighting force that helped protect the kingdom for many years.

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    The Dahomey Amazons were an all-female army that defended the Kingdom of Dahomey in West Africa from the 17th to 19th centuries. As the kingdom suffered from a shortage of men, women were recruited into the army and became formidable warriors. They were trained from a young age to be strong, fearless, and merciless fighters. Armed with muskets and machetes, the Dahomey Amazons were a feared fighting force that helped protect the kingdom for many years.

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    The

    warriors of
    Dahomey
    The DahomeyAmazons

    Presentation
    by Lora and
    Monika
    Dahomey

    Dahomey was a Kingdom that thrived in West


    Africa during the 17th and 19th centuries. Located
    in present-day Benin, Dahomey remained a
    Kingdom between 1625 and 1894, when the last
    king was defeated by the French.
    The Dahomey Amazons were an all-female army
    tasked with defending the Empire of Dahomey in
    the 18th and 19th centuries. The fierce and often
    terrifying warriors were nicknamed the Dahomey
    Amazons by European traders after the legendary
    warrior women of Greek mythology.

    Who are the Dahomey amazons?


    The women of the Dahomey Amazons
    referred to themselves as the Mino,
    meaning ,,our mothers’’ in the Fon language,
    or ahosi, meaning ,,King’s wives’’.

    Who are the Dahomey amazons?


    The African Kingdom suffers a serious shortage
    of men, women start getting recruited into the
    army. These women become not only an
    important part of the army, but a part of the
    governance as well. They had equal rights as the
    men in the tribe, to make decisions about the
    future of Dahomey.

    First traces
    First traces
    There’s no concrete date for when the
    Mino first became an army. The earliest
    record that hints at women forming a
    defensive coalition can be seen in the
    account of a French slaver who was visiting
    the port of Ouidah in 1725.
    First traces
    He recalled seeing women in groups
    defending the port while carrying poles and
    stated that they appeared to be acting as
    the port’s equivalent of law enforcement.
    First traces
    The first written historical account of
    the Mino appeared just four years later
    when they’re credited with recapturing
    the port of Ouidah following its fall to
    the Yoruba - a rival tribe of Dahomey.
    From the very beginning the amazons were thaught to be
    strong, fearless and merciless. Part of their training was
    jumping over walls, covered in prickly acacia branches and
    expeditions to the jungle with only one machete. That
    journey lasted 10 days. It’s not surprising that the warriors
    fought till death… that of the enemy or their own. After their
    training, they truly became deadly weapons that all of Africa
    feared for centuries.

    Training
    Weapons

    The main weapons were dutch muskets. Mino


    used machetes to decapitate and dismember
    their victims. It was then common among the
    Dahomeys to return with the heads and
    genetalia of their opponents.
    Weapons
    Even after the french conquer Dahomey, the
    fear of the amazons continues to rule. The
    French soldiers that stayed the night with the
    Dahomey women, were often found dead in the
    morning, with sliced throats. Underestimating
    the female opponents usually resulted in
    increasing the number of victims among the
    French invaders.
    The last survivor of the tribe died in 1979, over
    the age of 100. The researchers found this
    woman, called Navi, in a remoted village. In the
    19th century, in the amazon’s corpus, served
    6000 women warriors, which was a third of the
    Dahomey army.
    The terrifying women are not mythical
    creatures at all. They are the inspiration for
    many movies in our day and age, like the
    Dora Milaje in Black Panther, or The woman
    king, inspired entirely by the Dahomey
    Amazons.

    Today
    Summery

    https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-africa-45018914

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