Micaela bastidas biography

Leader of a large Andean uprising against the Spanish in Peru (1738–1781)

Micaela Bastidas Puyucahua (born in Tamburco, 1744; died in Cusco, May 18, 1781) was a pioneering indigenous leader against Spanish rule in South America, and a martyr for Peruvian independence.

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With her husband Túpac Amaru II, she led a rebellion against the Spanish and like him, suffered martyrdom of execution by the Spaniards when the revolt failed. She was a very full partner in her husband's enterprises before the revolt, and "an exceptionally able leader of the rebellion."^[2] She has been described as the "celebrated wife of José Gabriel Condorcanqui Momento Maren (Túpac Amaru II)...

who played a paramount role in the logistics of the rebel army in Cuzco in 1780 and 1781.^[3]

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Daughter of Josefa Puyucahua and Manuel Bastidas. The documentation on the life of Micaela Bastidas is not ample in comparison to that of her husband, but the historical re The 1780 rebellion of Tupac Amaru II and Micaela Bastidas in ...

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