Petra Herrera

[3] She was able to keep her identity as a woman a secret due to ingenious strategies, such as pretending to shave her beard every morning, thereby avoiding questions about facial hair.

[1] Although she had some victories, Pancho Villa refused to give military credit to a woman and would not permit Petra Herrea to serve as a General.

This manifested once her feminine identity was revealed and she formed a group of soldaderas which fought some battles next to the troops of General Villa.

")[5] She eventually commanded a brigade of over 1,000 women,[1] yet, conventional history does not say anything about the participation of Petra Herrera because Villa assigned her role in the revolution to an unknown woman.

[6] Some time later, her all-woman army was dissolved by superior orders and Petra Herrera ended up working as a spy, under the disguise of a girl in a canteen in the state of Chihuahua.