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.
[2] She is mentioned in Mexican elementary school textbooks issued by the Secretariat of Education (SEP) as a heroine of the independence movement.