Amanirenas
Amanirenas was the second queen of the Kush Kingdom in what is now modern-day Sudan. She ruled over the Meroitic Kingdom of Kush in Nubia between 40BC to 10BC. She was popularly known as queen mother or Kandake.
After the death of her husband, Emperor Teriqetas, Queen Aminarenas took over and ruled her people diligently.
In 24BC, together with her son Prince Akinidad, Queen Amanirenas led an army of 30,000 soldiers to fight the Romans in Egypt. The attack was to ward them off her kingdom and sack the Romans from the Egyptian city, Aswan. Knowing how small her army was as compared to the Roman army, Queen Amanirenas and her army attacked the Romans unannounced.
Queen Amanirenas captured three major Roman cities, took captives and destroyed and defaced many statues of Emperor Augustus but The Roman Empire soon reclaimed its cities, invaded Kush and sold many into slavery, but this did not deter Queen Amanirenas; if anything, it only made her stronger.
The Kushite and Roman armies fought tirelessly with the queen who was strong in battle for three long years. During one of the fights, the queen was injured by a Roman soldier and blinded in one eye. After healing, the queen led her army to several more fights against the Romans.
After three years of battle, the two parties decided to sign a peace treaty which favoured the Kushites.
