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It is estimated that some six hundred women served during the American Civil War. They had signed up disguised as men. Hollywood has missed a significant chapter of cultural history here – or is this history ideologically too difficult to deal with? Historians have often found it hard to deal with women who do not respect gender distinctions, and nowhere is gender distinction more strongly affected than in the question of armed female fighters.
But from antiquity to modern times, there are many stories of female warriors. The best known find their way into the history books as warrior queens, rulers and leaders. They have been forced to act as any Churchill or Roosevelt: Semiramis, queen of Assyria, and Boadicea, to mention just two. Semiramis is said to have conquered Ethiopia, Egypt and much of Asia. Among her many great achievements, some also mention the building of Babylon and of its legendary Hanging Gardens, although other authors claim that the gardens had not been built in her time but long after her reign.
Boadicea was a Celtic queen who revolted against the Roman invaders of her territory after they had robbed, beaten and sold into slavery many of her people. Her story, narrated by Roman historiographer Tacitus, was nearly forgotten for many centuries and became popular during the reign of another English queen who headed an army against foreign invasion, Queen Elizabeth I. Boadicea is honoured with a statue on the Thames at Westminster Bridge, right opposite Big Ben.
Although history is quite reticent about women having significant roles in battle either as warriors or leaders, hardly a war has been fought without women soldiers in the ranks.
