ABSTRACT
This chapter describes about women and power diametrically opposed to women's stature once upon a time in ourstory. Powerful women like Sudanese Jebl Sahaba, the warrior, in 650 BC, was one of the first women to be so recorded. Europe witnessed a line of great women including Aethelflaed who proved to be masterful at territorial expansion, even forcing the Welsh to surrender their holdings thus consolidating the reach and range of her power in the process. Modern-day women heads of state, like their predecessors, are no less adept and powerful at strategically governing, especially during times of war. Women, during the period of enlightenment but a retrenchment for the specie, found themselves at odds with the ideologies of intolerance of the day and principally those women who sought ways to serve their respective sovereigns as patriots through military. Women were relegated to attiring themselves in men's clothing just for the opportunity to function in some patriotic capacity.
