“Cretan heroines”
“In all patriotic wars, women are not inferior to men in heroism. Jeanne Dark was the most famous warrior. In Toulouse, the people’s avenger killed Simon de Monfor. In Spain, women were heroines during the siege of Saragos. In Greece, the famous Bobelin inflicted many defeats to the Turks. Her memory was now compiled on the island of Crete Legion of the Amazons, and this is how one of the volunteers describes them: today I saw Haji Mikale. He gathered fifty young girls who all learned to shoot at the target. They have their own banner, and a monk. The example of these heroines aroused everyone to imitate, deputies from other parts of the island have now gathered at Haji Mike. The Athenian Ficritic Committee took up the armament of these heroines. Each has an English carbine with a bayonet and a cartoons. Clothing is the same as that of the pelicaries: Fes, Corset, Fourstanella and the Shtyblet. Chlamyda serves as an overcoat. The main boss they have an old officer with several non-commissioned officers. The banner depicts panagia, or St. The girl, crowned with stars and trampling the snake with the inscription “God chooses the weak in order to shame the strong ones.”
More than once, the heroines courageously defended themselves against the Turks and put them to flight.
(“Illustrated newspaper”, October 19, 1867)
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