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Women and Independence in Latin America An exploration of women's involvement in the Latin American Wars of Independence |
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Women and Independence in Latin America An exploration of women's involvement in the Latin American Wars of Independence |
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Gender:Female
Ethnic origen: Unknown
Events:
| 1846 | - | Puebla City | - | Unknown | - | She fought to defend her country from US invaders. |
Connections:
US/Mexico War 1846-48Biography:
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)
References:
Johannsen, Robert W. (1985) To the Halls of the Montezumas: The Mexican War in the American Imagination