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Ángela Jiménez, alias Lieutenant Ángel (born 1886, Jalapa del Marqués) was a soldadera (woman fighter) during the Mexican Revolution.She performed different duties such as a flag bearer, spy and sometimes cook.
Valentina Ramírez Avitia (14 February 1893 – 4 April 1979) was a Mexican revolutionary and soldadera.She was known as "La Valentina" and "La leona de Norotal". [1] She fought against the Federales in the Mexican Revolution at a time when women were not allowed to join the army.
María Quinteras de Meras was a Mexican revolutionary and soldadera who rose to the rank of colonel. She dressed as a man and fought in ten battles between 1910 and 1913. Her fighting was so fierce she was thought to have supernatural powers. [1] De Meras joined Pancho Villa's army in 1910. [2]
La Mujer en la Revolución Mexicana. Mexico City: Instituto Nacional de Estudios Históricos de la Revolución Mexicana, 1961. Reséndez, Andrés (April 1995). "Battleground Women: Soldaderas and Female Soldiers in the Mexican Revolution". The Americas. 51 (4): 525– 553. doi: 10.2307/1007679. JSTOR 1007679. Ruiz-Alfaro, Sofia (2013).
Margarita Neri was a Zapatista commander and a soldadera during the Mexican Revolution. [1] She was a Dutch-Maya Indian from the Mexican state of Quintana Roo who was one of the few female military leaders to achieve fame during the revolution.
INEHRM's building in San Ángel, Mexico City. The Instituto Nacional de Estudios Históricos de la Revolución Mexicana (English: National Institute of Historical Studies on the Mexican Revolution; INEHRM) is a research institute of the Mexican Secretariat of Public Education (Spanish: Secretaría de Educación Pública), dedicated to studying the Mexican Revolution (1910–1920).
Virginia Salinas de Carranza (September 20, 1861 – November 9, 1919) was the initial First Lady of Mexico after the Mexican Revolution. She was married to Venustiano Carranza , a major leader of the revolution and first constitutional President of Mexico from around 1917–1920.
It was founded on 2 April 1712 by Sebastián Villegas Cumplido and named in honour of the serving Viceroy of New Spain, Fernando de Alencastre Norona y Silva, Duke of Linares. Linares has a small industrial park and is well-connected to both Monterrey and the Gulf of Mexico via highway. It is also the main gateway to the southern part of the state.