Manuela Medina

María Manuela Molina
Mosaic of Manuela Medina in Mexico City
Born	1780 (1780) Taxco
Died	2 March 1822(1822-03-02) (aged 41–42) Texcoco, State of Mexico
Nationality	Mexican
Other names	La Capitana
Occupation	Insurgent

Manuela Medina (1780-1822) was a woman 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. ^[1] The last of her seven battles was in early 1821 where she was wounded twice. She eventually died of these wounds in 1822. ^[2] She is mentioned in Mexican elementary school textbooks issued by the Secretariat of Education (SEP) as a heroine of the independence movement. ^[3]

References

1. Adams, Jerome (1995). Twenty-nine Leaders, Rebels, Poets, Battlers, and Spies, 1500-1900. McFarland. p. 137.
2. Adams, Jerome (1995). Notable Latin American Women: Twenty-nine Leaders, Rebels, Poets, Battlers, and Spies, 1500-1900 . McFarland. pp.  137. ISBN   9780786400225.
3. Secretaría de Educación Pública. Comisión Nacional de Libros de Texto Gratuitos. (2007) (en español). Historia. Cuarto Grado.

• Secretaría de Educación Pública. Comisión Nacional de Libros de Texto Gratuitos. (2007) (en español). Historia. Cuarto Grado. ISBN   978-968-01-1655-3.