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(AFRICA) #AceHistoryReport: Founded in the 17th century, the West African kingdom of Dahomey was a bellicose, expansionist state: European contact with Dahomey began with the slave trade; the kingdom had a regular supply of slaves thanks to its campaigns. But European visitors in the 1720s were surprised to find the king guarded by women #AceNewsDesk report

#AceHistoryDesk says according to a History Today Report: On The Last Stand of Dahomeyโ€™s Female Army: Historians disagree about when the womenโ€™s palace guard expanded into an army. But by the 19th century witnesses regarded the womenโ€™s army, though smaller than its male counterpart, to be superior. Where the men shot muskets from the hip, […]