Juana Ramírez
Juana Ramírez (1790[1] - 1856), better known as Juana "La Avanzadora", was a soldier and heroine of the Venezuelan War of Independence.
Biography
She was born in to slavery.[2] In 1813, Juana Ramírez commanded an all-female, 100-strong artillery unit, which was instrumental in resisting Spanish soldiers’ attempts to reconquer the then newly independent Venezuela and make it a colony again.[3]
Burial
that were the first markers of the exact site were "La Avanzadora" is buried. A monument, constructed and declared the District Patriotic Sanctuary in 1975, and then the Regional Patriotic Sanctuary in 1994, designates the final resting place of her remains. The monument, Juana La Avanzadora, was erected in her honor on Bolívar avenue in Maturín. On October 23, 2001 the symbolic remains of Juana Ramírez were inducted into the National Pantheon of Venezuela, the last resting place of heroes of the War for Independence and important figures in Venezuelan society.
In 2015 she became the first black woman to be posthumously laid to rest in Venezuela's National Mausoleum of Heroes.[4]
References
- ^ Boothroyd, Rachael (October 23, 2015). "First Black Woman Independence Fighter is Honoured in Venezuela's National Mausoleum". venezuelanalysis.com. Retrieved 2015-11-07.
- ^ Boothroyd, Rachael (October 23, 2015). "First Black Woman Independence Fighter is Honoured in Venezuela's National Mausoleum". venezuelanalysis.com. Retrieved 2015-11-07.
- ^ Boothroyd, Rachael (October 23, 2015). "First Black Woman Independence Fighter is Honoured in Venezuela's National Mausoleum". venezuelanalysis.com. Retrieved 2015-11-07.
- ^ Boothroyd, Rachael (October 23, 2015). "First Black Woman Independence Fighter is Honoured in Venezuela's National Mausoleum". venezuelanalysis.com. Retrieved 2015-11-07.
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