France's Worst Nightmare Was 6,000 Women #history #military #dahomey

Added: 2026-05-28

[00:00:00]You know what your teachers didn't tell you?  For 200 years, the Kingdom of Domi in West Africa fielded an all female army. 6,000 women  trained from childhood. The most disciplined infantry in West Africa. Their name in their  own language was Mino. [music] Our mothers.

[00:00:17]European travelers in the 1800s came home  with stories nobody believed. Then in 1890, France invaded Deomi. The French army [music]  had modern rifles, machine guns, and artillery.

[00:00:31]The Mino had musketss, machetes, and [music]  training the French had never seen. French officers wrote in their letters that nothing in  Europe had prepared them for what they faced.

[00:00:42]Hand-to-hand combat at point blank range. Women  cutting through bayonet lines that broke European armies. The French [music] won the war eventually  with overwhelming numbers and superior technology.

[00:00:55]But the Mino fought to [music] the last woman.  French commanders called them the most formidable soldiers they had ever met. Then France went home  and made sure the world never heard their names.

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