Manuela Medina

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

She fought with José María Morelos and was not only a soldier in the army but an officer. She was the first captain of the rebel forces to lead her troops into royalist fire and succeeded against the royalist soldiers.[1] The last of her seven battles was in early 1821 where she was wounded twice. She eventually died of these wounds in 1822.[2] She is mentioned in Mexican elementary school textbooks issued by the Secretariat of Education (SEP) as a heroine of the independence movement.[3]

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. pp. 137.
  3. Secretaría de Educación Pública. Comisión Nacional de Libros de Texto Gratuitos. (2007) (en español). Historia. Cuarto Grado.
  • Secretaría de Educación Pública. Comisión Nacional de Libros de Texto Gratuitos. (2007) (en español). Historia. Cuarto Grado. ISBN 978-968-01-1655-3.
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