Show r I It r It t I t to to to toi i GREAT WOMEN i 1 COMMANDERS Heroines or of thin tho Sox Say Who t e e lOl ht For i IJ 1 generally accepted traditions of 01 THE THC innate aversion to the horrors ot of martial strife have bave Men been Mendl sadly dl discounted by the lan des 4 of the he put past few tew mouths to In th the realm of hr her Celestial Tel All An and In South Africa Tat tal Asis As AM AMII is II the commander In of the army arm and navy AVY of Chins China sad ad for tor that matter U commander of oC vise 1 to tb the flowery Kingdom Ih She ha b blot lot amt been eminently In her warlike effort as for example In the tho war with J Japan pan but those thoe who are so ao with the traits trait of the royal old lady ot of China assert rt that lot k wu hr het hrU wiles U that through LI Hung Chang from th the trusting Jape Japa all 11 the of victory In n a treaty that wu a amodel ao model el ot of diplomatic guile ulle Impress tl Till Tel II I said Id to he be thoroughly with willi military She llIe has studied It deeply Some Iome years erI ago aro too she learned bo boxing and fencing and U ta qUite capable except for tor her br ad d f years ot of leading hn her troops troop ups up upon upson on the Held Nothing but public opinion and the divInity that royalty In China prevents hr hex from doing so 10 for she la II a gnat lIat ad or of military genius Iu and nd would like Ilk Ip prove her own genius Iua In that u In Inot EOr s ot of other lines linea The seining of the hoer Doer women for forU forthe the U ot of their hu has been enlarged upon and marveled about until those who are arc not acquainted with the part women have hae played In thE history Gt at the word would fancy faner that never vr be before to fore had bad women entered In the Mete leta of war No lo grater mistake could poal bly be made for tor tom some of tb the greatest of the world hue have been worn wom women en Not only In the ranks of the common com common mon soldier have women shown their ability If need be to protect with the sword their country and their liberty but else allO as commanders man many hav shown a skill that thaI has haa ranked them Ita as among the worlds great generals 7 noble noWA Semiramis Margaret of Norway Nora Merge Marga Margat ret t of AnJou and nd Marla Theresa were great military leaden Many women have been not only the heads of vast military enterprises but bul some of thorn them In subordinate have ban won renown as lading their soldiers to war and proved wont wom genius as soldiers Artemisia queen ot of Carla was an anally ally ot of Xerxes In hll hie expedItion against Greece On her the leader greatly depended and Ih the fact that he consulted the queen of Carla so JO often rendered the other allies eo jeal OUR of her Iter that could they have spared the fleet nett and she contributed to tot t the expedition they would glAdly ha have discredited hr her with the king Jl Had d aU all of advice been followed the result of the battle of Salamis might hue have been dIfferent So splendidly did she maneuver her little fleet nett and so well did her followers tight fight that Xerxes re referring ferring In bitterness to the conduct of nf i his hll own troops said Mid The men behave hike ke women end and the women like men menSo i So Iio much muth IUd did the Athenian tear feu her a aan as asan an enemy that th they tat a price ot of upon hr her head but tailed filled to 10 capture hr her Alexander the Or t declared amts to have been one of the greatest warriors warrior who had bad preceded hIm Ilar capital wu Wat which she eel and while carrying her conquests to Ie sea so remote that tha t no As AI had ever before looked vp upon n them while hr her chariots so std Aid the theold old eld reported by Alexander roads made where wild beasts bed Ita found no path It I interesting In this t to neap the theory ot of Some lOIn I kie that the art are descend descended ed from emigrants from Dall DallIon Baby Ion IonI I queer who lived Ave An get n ni i oration after aUer Alexander 1 wu a mat gnat military strategist In order to make the approach to Babylon to an Inva Invader lr and Impossible without the ot of the Babylonians she des de the Uti river 1 EUphrat that ran rail railI I through the city and made Its Ita approach extremely tortuous and cult I Bodice the ancient qu queen en or of died In battle with her hel foes fOls It I Ia rat a II a Victory that cost the do UA appalling IoU log to 10 the Koman Homane I I who r the Britons a as Ignorant I In a IW years r Theist the JOI poets raved Ar JOA fos from Cleomenes l of Sparta rt A t the h t warrior In Greece She ter mU elf Itt St the Mad head lit nt a number of arm armI I lit 14 women ume who ho t fought so 10 bravely I that cos as expelled from AT Argos I those IOU of at Are rc is II too WIll well known to rv 1 quire lute more than Iban Thera wu was wuI I OUI Joan In trance France who wat won Iron ity under the name ot of Joan When 11 Charles ChrI the fold Bold her 1111 natty th Beauvais Ib site hI held the for loul IX and nd because In till the on the Uti city she th the trap lon I Ia la a f the town with small axe and h t r hea headed the party which I t the Attack she he Ift the nam fir f For 1101 thle 1 Special wire fl granted to the nun n nd 01 d ha town b by the lh grateful king n AIM of et the mOlt mat or of h women commanders was AI tn I the h Jh She had ben been a friend ot of lh he Princess Sn an so gal reformer and on her death In lw taste lalta undertook to execute her rienda rather Ideas for tor th the brt t the condition of women The dab Iah ass II to a state for tor worn wom wornA ton A t this men HIR sere w 0 hAve no I mod It If they Ule Intruded must mUM accept pt the ot of its 11 women omen In III n cv cry particular I Front rolt this odd corn might have Ils Idea for tor The Th Her lIer ClaP cap Ital tat waa ria Mount and the then and her muon lived for tor tight eight rears M achieving victory after atter victory 1 0 vor t It of their mule neighbors WM who their prosperity undertook to them At lut Ia t tit the king kine of Bo la meads with a great t tore stormed the citadel and ull killed This remark remarkable able woman wrote and a code which ill the inferiority of man a doctrine which Ih she promulgated at tb the point ot of the tbt word sword more success successfully full fully than modern IMI ladies of similar views rem able ble to do from the plat platform I form torm Margaret ret ot of N Norway has been Ma call called the of the Nc North tb She Ibe wu was born bona In lIaS 1568 u and wu Nu the daUlt daugh daughter tr ter and lId heiress ot of Kin King of Denmark When 11 year ara of alt age she be wu married to king of Nor Norway way ar When 11 1 your after she he wu left Ift without husband or father tather she ruled Maled both lIob Norway end and Denmark for tor her son IOn Olaus Taking ot of national 1 during Q a rebellIon I against Inal Albert of kin king of If I Sweden she had herself belt declared queen I b by the Swedes Iwed She defeated Albert on the and compelled him tu to tt re resign I Ilip She at 3 tl I sign lip to ler er his Ita crown was owing to her br energy and genius qun ot of Norway Denmark and Sweden I which to an assembly of n nt h r declared to be a single IlnI kingdom At the height of hr her great neu came the death of tar son Hon r whom lb she had bad striven to thi this greet kingdom and the son lIOn or u II l relative wu elected her Ih died In 1611 1112 feared and respected by ev cry 1 monarch ot of Europe Margaret ot of AnJou Will was the r ot of the kin king ot of and wit wife of Hnry VI of England She fur her hor Incompetent husband and headed I the III party part In the war of the roses rOAf Ih She Will wee twice conquered by th the 1 Puke of York but gained the gnat at victory of In which the duke duk lost hl his life HIS son 1011 succeeded him and ha had I himself proclaimed Edward I IV III His victory vie to at Tow Tolon ton wu the overthrow of th the party rt although th the Indomitable Margaret later returned to England from France With more mON troops She wu then N captured lured and lId incarcerated for two yam ea In th the Tower of at london After two yean 11 oe a prisoner she he wu released through the Influence ot of Loule XI Sh She died In France when she ahe had bad spent her girlhood In Father Vather Vernon published In Parts A book called The Tbt Christian Am AmIOn IOn or the Adventures of Mme De St It Ralmon Balman This lad lady wu the wife of Colonel De St Balmon who In the Thirty Years Tear war defended her native village Neu tile Fran th the halt troops from Hungary then I overrunning the country countr In X May 1158 I Ihen when hen but 28 8 years old Mme De St It Dalmon took look part In a terrible battle against the Baron and compel compelled led him and hi his army to II See De DeSt St from her h childhood had bad agrist a gr grist t taste for tor arms and In the castle ot of Neuville when whre she b grew to strong and intelligent womanhood she ha wu In Ins In their use UIO for tor those were re times when none lion could any when hen the lady chatelaine might be upon to defend her castle against her own and those lhOte ot of the king Spain SpI bad a soldier heroine In Juana Jun de Toledo of General RI RIv RIvera v vera Inuring Durla Jail absence at t tb the war wan lb she defended from the th king I I ot of Portugal who ending andla his hla troops lot take aile tb the fortress tiled un euc to 0 bribe Ita Ile fair Mender The Th mast t famous heroine of Spain however wu was the raid of Saragossa th the love lovely girl who saved lived that town ton from a groat army rUl under Nape Napo Irons emissary Lefevre Thill Thie girl Irl Angostina died cUed In 1136 1126 having 11 lived to see Napoleon the enemy of h hr country uncrowned and an extra exile the Ule Greek heroine wag aI ono OM ot of the picturesque figures of the early arl part ot of the century Her husband wan killed by the Ottoman porte and aM t avenge his hilt death she h Sited out thre ships and In command ot of this small fleet became a esa rover Inflicting In Ins Jury on the Turkish government when whenever hen ever and however lb she could lIr sons she Ihl sent lent to light with the Greek army armyon on shore In she be was so 10 lIy by bythe the Tutu Turks that they fled whenever a o vessel resembling hen hove Into sight ALICE DJ BERDT |