Manuela Pedraza
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Her full name was "Manuela Hurtado y Pedraza", but she was known to all as ''"Manuela la tucumanesa"'' (old style demonym for "Manuela from Tucumán", then part of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata, now Argentina). Even though her origin is known, the precise location, as well as her date of birth and death, are unknown.
Manuela Pedraza participated in the largest, and last, battle of the reconquest; it took place over three days (August 10–12, 1806) at the very centre of Buenos Aires. She fought alongside her husband (a corporal in the army) with the Liniers forces that surrounded the Spanish Fortress (now, the Casa Rosada, seat of the Argentine government on Plaza de Mayo), at that moment in British hands. On the second day of the battle, August 11, her husband was killed by a British soldier; in turn, Manuela killed that soldier with her own bayonet. Immediately after, she took her husband’s musket and continued the fighting, killing another British soldier.
After the battle, Liniers, the commander of the victorious local forces and soon to be appointed Viceroy for the Río de la Plata, named Manuela to the newly formed Patricios Regiment with a salary and the rank of "''alférez''" (approximately, second lieutenant). The report by Liniers is displayed in the Museum of the Buenos Aires Cabildo, and reads:
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1by Berta Laquente, Teresa Macarulla, Cristina Bugés, Marta Martín, Carlos García, Carles Pericay, Sandra Merino, Laura Visa, Teresa Martín, Manuela Pedraza, Beatriz Carnero, Raquel Guardeño, Helena Verdaguer, Alejandro Mut, David Vilanova, Adelaida GarcíaGet full text
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2by Facundo Vitelli-Storelli, Raul Zamora-Ros, Antonio J. Molina, Tania Fernández-Villa, Adela Castelló, Juan Pablo Barrio, Pilar Amiano, Eva Ardanaz, Mireia Obón-Santacana, Inés Gómez-Acebo, Guillermo Fernández-Tardón, Ana Molina-Barceló, Juan Alguacil, Rafael Marcos-Gragera, Emma Ruiz-Moreno, Manuela Pedraza, Leire Gil, Marcela Guevara, Gemma Castaño-Vinyals, Trinidad Dierssen-Sotos, Manolis Kogevinas, Nuria Aragonés, Vicente MartínGet full text
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