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The Battle of Blood River of 16 December 1838 was a victory of 464 Voortrekkers led by Andries Pretorius over a Zulu force of 25,000 to 30,000, fought on the bank of the Ncome River, in what is today KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. The Zulu had perhaps 3,000 casualties, while only three Voortrekker commando members were lightly wounded.
During the Great War, Serbia could be considered a country of women with a far greater number of women compared to men, Serbian census in 1910 showed there were 100 females per 107 males but by the time of the Austro-Hungarian census in 1916 there were 100 females per sixty-nine males, many of the men gone from the census just a short six years ...
Women have played a leading role in active warfare. The following is a list of prominent women in war and their exploits from about 1500 up to about 1699. Only women active in direct warfare, such as warriors, spies, and women who actively led armies are included in this list.
Oct. 5, 1789, a young woman struck a marching drum and led The Women's March on Versailles, in a revolt against King Louis XVI of France, storming the palace and signaling the French Revolution. [30] In 1947, Chief Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti led the Abeokuta Women's Union in a revolt that resulted in the abdication of the Egba High King Oba Ademola ...
List of battles of the Eighty Years' War (1566–1648); Lists of battles of the French Revolutionary Wars and Napoleonic Wars (1792–1815); List of American Civil War battles (1861–1865)
List of Canadian battles during the First World War on the Western Front plaque in Currie Hall, Royal Military College of Canada. The Western Front comprised the fractious borders between France, Germany, and the neighboring countries. It was infamous for the nature of the fight that developed there; after almost a full year of inconclusive ...
Naval battles of World War I by country (15 C) A. Battles of World War I involving Australia (4 C, 116 P) Battles of World War I involving Austria-Hungary (3 C, 109 P) B.
One of the most notable changes during World War II was the inclusion of many of women in regular military units. In several countries, including the Soviet Union , Nazi Germany , and the United Kingdom in the European Theater , as well as China and Imperial Japan in the Pacific Theater , women served in combat roles, such as anti-aircraft ...