A member of a wealthy family, married at the age of twenty and determined to accompany her husband in the War of Independence, the life of Doña Rita Pérez represents the greatest suffering as an insurgent mother, wife and fighter. She was born on May 23, 1779, in the Cañada de los Pérez, in today’s municipality of San. Juan de los Lagos, Jalisco. When in 1814 Don Pedro Moreno decided to jump into the insurgency, he wrote to his wife, Doña Rita P…
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A member of a wealthy family, married at the age of twenty and determined to accompany her husband in the War of Independence, the life of Doña Rita Pérez represents the greatest suffering as an insurgent mother, wife and fighter. She was born on May 23, 1779, in the Cañada de los Pérez, in today’s municipality of San. Juan de los Lagos, Jalisco. When in 1814 Don Pedro Moreno decided to jump into the insurgency, he wrote to his wife, Doña Rita P…