Maria Quitéria, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetMaria Quitéria
Brazilian national heroine
Date of Birth: 27-Jul-1792
Place of Birth: Feira de Santana, Bahia, Brazil
Date of Death: 21-Aug-1853
Profession: military personnel
Zodiac Sign: Leo 
About Maria Quitéria
- Maria Quitéria (27 July 1792 – 21 August 1853) was a Brazilian lieutenant and national heroine.
- She served in the Brazilian War of Independence in 1822–23 dressed as a man.
- She was promoted to cadet and Lieutenant and decorated with the Imperial order.
- She has been called "Brazilian Joan of Arc," and has become a kind of national legendary figure.
- Quitéria was the first woman to serve in a military unit in Brazil.
- She, along with Maria Felipa de Oliveira (died 1873) and Sister Joana Angélica (1761-1822), are known as the three Bahian women resistance fighters in the War of Independence against the Portuguese.Against her father's will, an unmarried Maria Quitéria enlisted in the Brazilian army, as a man, in October 1822.
- Until June 1823, she fought in several battles against the Portuguese in Bahia, where she lived.
- Maria Quitéria's father outed her as a woman once he discovered her betrayal—but because of her skill in battle, she was allowed to continue to fight.
- She was promoted to cadet in July 1823, and then to lieutenant in August, where she was received and decorated by the Emperor.Few details are known about the life of Maria Quitéria.
- The historian Aristides Milton, a childhood friend of the poet Castro Alves, grandson of the major who defended Maria Quiteria for her skill with weapons and recognized military discipline, and incorporated it her to his troops, considers Maria Quiteria "a lady as brave as honest" in the Ephemerides Cachoeiranas.
- She is briefly mentioned by English travel author Maria Graham (later Lady Callcott) in her book Journal of a Voyage to Brazil: "Maria de Jesus is illiterate, but lively.
- She has clear intelligence and acute perception.
- I think that if they educated her, she would become a notable personality.
- One observes nothing masculine in her conduct, rather she is of gentle and friendly manners."
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| Date of birth/death | 1872 | 1923 | |
| Location of birth | Zugliano, Italy | ||
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| Work location | Italy, United States of America, Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Venezuela | ||
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