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Isabel Leonor Leitão

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Ethnic origin: White

Biographical details

Wife of José Gomes de Vasconcelos Jardim, leader and one time president of the Farroupilha Republic, José Gomes de Vasconcelos Jardim (b. 1784. d. 1854). The mother of seven children, she shared her husband’s active commitment to the Republican cause during the Farroupilha War of Rio Grande do Sul (1835-45).

Life Events

Other 1835She supported the Republican cause in the Farroupilha War (1835-45).

References

Silveira, Diva Ione, (1985), Heroínas da Resistência Gaúcha


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