If you enjoyed watching Dora Milaje’s Female Warriors in Black Panther, then you will love the story of the Dahomey Warriors, a fierce all-female army that was so ruthless that European colonists called them the Amazons, after the merciless Warriors of Greek mythology, Anatolia and the Black Sea.

The Dahomey Amazons were front line soldiers in the army of the Kingdom of Dahomey, a West African empire that existed from 1625 to 1904. They were defeated, after several battles, at the end of the second Franco-Dahomean war. But, the boldness of the Dahomey Warriors left an impression on the French soldiers who wrote about their “incredible courage and audacity ” in combat.

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