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Home » Database » Search » Writing

Memo

Author:

Writing Type: Note

Abstract

Quote from a memo in Morelos´s archive, see below.

Keywords: Manuela Medina, women soldiers, independence of Mexico

Archive: Biblioteca Nacional de México

Location Details: Quoted in Manuel Carrera Stampa, Heroinas de la guerra de independencia, p.1.

Text: Hoy no se ha hecho fuego ninguno. Llegó en esta día a nuestro campo doña Manuela Medina, india natural de Texcoco, mujer extraordinaria a quien la Junta dio el titulo de "la Capitana", por sus servicios prestados a la causa insurgente y a la nación mexicana.