Manuela Medina

Manuela Medina (1780-1822) was a national heroine who fought on the forefront of combat during the Mexican War of Independence.

She fought with Jose Maria Morelos and was not only a soldier in the army but a Captain. She was a full-blooded Indian from Texcoco who was the first Captain of the rebel forces to lead her troops into royalist fire and succeeding against the Spanish King's soldiers.^[1]

The last of her seven battles took place in early 1821 where she received two fatal wounds that killed her after a year and a half of pain in 1822.^[2]

References

1. Adams, Jerome (1995). Twenty-nine Leaders, Rebels, Poets, Battlers, and Spies, 1500-1900. McFarland. p. 137.
2. Adams, Jerome (1995). Notable Latin American Women: Twenty-nine Leaders, Rebels, Poets, Battlers, and Spies, 1500-1900. McFarland. p. 137.

• Secretaría de Educación Pública. Comisión Nacional de Libros de Texto Gratuitos. (2007) (en español). Historia. Cuarto Grado. ISBN 978-968-01-1655-3.