Juana Ramírez
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Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Juana Ramírez, also known as "Juana La Avanzadora" (1790–1856), was a Venezuelan heroine of the Venezuelan War of Independence. She was born a slave in Guarico, Venezuela, but in 1813 she commanded an all women’s 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.[1] In 2015 she became the first black woman to be posthumously laid to rest in Venezuela's National Mausoleum of Heroes.[2]
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