Amanirenas (40-10 BCE) was the **one-eyed warrior Kandake (Queen Mother) of the Kingdom of Kush in Nubia** (modern Sudan) — **who personally led an army across the border to defeat three Roman cohorts and beheaded the bronze statue of Augustus at Syene (Aswan), bringing the head back as a war trophy**. **The buried head — now in the British Museum — was discovered under the steps of her victory temple at Meroe**, where it was placed so worshippers would tread on it. **Eventually negotiated a peace with Augustus that left Roman troops out of Kush.**
**Among the most fearsome opponents of Augustus during his reign.**
Amanirenas reduces to one — the number of Augustus-defeater.