"Dos Amades"

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Gender: F
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Biographical details

According to "an American officer", in the 1840s, a Monterrey woman known as "Dos Amades" or "the Second Joan of Arc" "unsexed herself" and wearing a captain’s uniform swore to drive the "Northern barbarians" from her country. She led lancers against the North Americans earning their respect and admiration. After the war she returned to her family. (Johannsen, 137)

Life Events

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1846

Took part in the Texas campaign.

References

Johannsen, Robert W., (1985), To the Halls of the Montezumas: The Mexican War in the American Imagination

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Gendering Latin American Independence

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