Women / Persons ~ P25390

Kara Fatima Khanum

Alternate Names:

"Black Lady Fatima"
Fatima Khanum

Gender: Female

Life Dates: ca. 1794 - ca. 1887

Types:

Military
Ruler
Soldier

Note: Commanded cavalry to aid the Ottoman Empire against Russia, Crimean war. A chieftain, either Kurdish or Turkoman. Was described as over 75 by the Chicago Tribune of 1887, but as 60 by the Illustrated London News of 1854. May be a composite figure.

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Fatima, a Turkish Commander (Russian War); Lady Paget (Attack on the Mamelon, 1855); Miss Wheeler (Cawnpore Massacre) Author: Ellen Creathorne Clayton . Collection Title: Female Warriors: Memorials of Female Valour and Heroism, from the Mythological Ages to the Present Era. 1879