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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 | - | Mexico | - | Unknown | - | She was a nurse in the 1846 war (fictional character?). |
Connections:
Mythical/ folkloric womenBiography:
This is possibly a fictional character.
A Mexican “angel” nurse of the 1846 war, described by anti-war campaigner John Greenleaf Whittier. He describes how she, surrounded by the “maimed and suffering” of both armies, was seen ministering to their wants “with impartial tenderness”. Ximena then looked across the smoky battlefield and “can see the wounded crawling slowly out from heaps of slain.
Now they stagger, blind and bleeding; now they fall, and strive to rise;
Hasten, sisters, haste and save them, lest they die before our eyes!”
Ximena gives “a bitter curse upon them … who led these forth, from some gentle, sad-eyed mother, weeping, lonely in the North!” (Johannsen, 211, 216.)
References:
Johannsen, Robert W. (1985) To the Halls of the Montezumas: The Mexican War in the American Imagination