TheTrưng sisters, Trưng Trắc and Trưng Nhị, were warriors who rebelled against Chinese Han-dynasty domination of Vietnam, liberating their country and becoming national heroines – and are still celebrated as such today despite both dying around 2000 years ago.
Warriors
Warriors: Black Agnes Randolph
‘From the record of Scottish heroes, none can presume to erase her.' These were the words used by novelist and poet Sir Walter Scott about Black Agnes Randolph, a Scottish heroine in the fight against the English.
Warriors: Nusaybah bint Ka’ab
The birth of Islam allowed women to have independent identities and for a woman’s successes or failures to rest entirely on her. This is no better demonstrated than in the case of Nusaybah bint Ka’ab, Islam’s first woman warrior.