Also known as: Dahomey Amazons, Dahomey Amazons (Mino), dahomey-amazons-(mino), Agojie, Ahosi
Last updated: April 23, 2026
The only documented all-female military regiment in modern history. Their martial traditions traveled across the Atlantic with enslaved Dahomeans and influenced the Haitian Revolution - most notably through Victoria Montou Toya, the warrior aunt who trained Jean-Jacques Dessalines.
Whether formally a Mino warrior or trained in that martial tradition before her capture, she carried the Dahomean warrior heritage — the tradition of the Mino as shock troops, the first wave in battle — across the Atlantic to Saint-Domingue.
The Bight of Benin was the Atlantic exit point through which Dahomean captives entered the slave trade.
The Mino (Dahomey Amazons) were the female military regiment of the Kingdom of Dahomey.
The Mino represented the military culture of Fon/Dahomean African ethnic groups in Saint-Domingue.
amazons-mino - Warrior tradition
amazons-mino - The military tradition that Toya carried
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