Manuela Medina

Manuela Medina (1780-1822) was a national heroine who fought on the forefront of combat during the Mexican War of Independence. She was a Native American from Texcoco.

She fought with José María Morelos and was not only a soldier in the army but an officer. She was the first captain of the rebel forces to lead her troops into royalist fire and succeeded against the royalist soldiers. The last of her seven battles was in early 1821 where she was wounded twice. She eventually died of these wounds in 1822. She is mentioned in Mexican elementary school textbooks issued by the Secretariat of Education (SEP) as a heroine of the independence movement.

References

Secretaría de Educación Pública. Comisión Nacional de Libros de Texto Gratuitos. (2007) (en español). Historia. Cuarto Grado. .

1780 births

1822 deaths

Women in 19th-century warfare

People of the Mexican War of Independence

Women in the Mexican War of Independence

19th-century Mexican women

19th-century Mexican people

18th-century Mexican women

People from Texcoco, State of Mexico

Women in Mexico

18th-century Mexican people