Women on the front line, from forgotten commanders to cross-dressing soldiers
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The History of the Dohomi Regiment
Women proposed regiments on multiple occasions and again typically out of patriotism. Dohomi had a very significant tradition of not just a female regiment but the Kingdom of Benin elite troops were in fact female so the SAS equivalent are the these women 19th century European observers called them Amazon's The historical record more accurately as a meno or a goji.
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