Name Manuela Medina | Died 1822, Texcoco, Mexico | |
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Manuela Medina (1780-1822) was a national heroine who fought on the forefront of combat during the Mexican War of Independence.
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She fought with Jose Maria Morelos and was not only a soldier in the army but a Captain. She was a full-blooded Indian from Texcoco who was the first Captain of the rebel forces to lead her troops into royalist fire and succeeding against the Spanish King's soldiers.

The last of her seven battles took place in early 1821 where she received two fatal wounds that killed her after a year and a half of pain in 1822.

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