Pancha Carrasco, Costa Rican soldier (died 1890)

Pancha Carrasco

Costa Rican soldier

Pancha Carrasco, born Francisca Carrasco Jiménez, was Costa Rica's first woman in the military. Carrasco is most famous for joining the defending forces at the Battle of Rivas in 1856 with a rifle and a pocketful of bullets. The strength and determination she showed there made…