![Sketch of a Dahomey "Amazon," 1864](https://www.historynet.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/dahomey-amazon-1864-book-sketch-library-of-congress-e1712072942854.jpg)
A Dahomey “Amazon” is depicted in a sketch made after an 1860s expedition to Dahomey in West Africa by Sir Richard Francis Burton. The Amazons were an all-female regiment of the Dahomey army that served as bodyguards to the king. (Library of Congress)
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