The Dahomey Amazons are the only documented all female official frontline combat arm military unit in modern history.
They were a sub-saharan band of female terminators who left their European colonizers shaking in their boots. #internationalwomensday
They were a sub-saharan band of female terminators who left their European colonizers shaking in their boots. #internationalwomensday
Foreign observers named them the Dahomey Amazons while they called themselves "N’Nonmiton", which means “our mothers”.
Protecting their king on the bloodiest of battlefields, they emerged as an elite fighting force in the Kingdom of Dahomey.
