Born: 11 December 1852, Cuba
Died: 19 January 1914
Country most active: Cuba
Also known as: NA
The following is excerpted from “400 Outstanding Women of the World and the Costumology of Their Time” by Minna Moscherosch Schmidt, published in 1933.
Daughter of the lawyer and proprietor (later Major General of the Cuban army of Independence), Pedro Figueredo, she was born in Bayamo. At the age of sixteen years, she joined the Revolutionary forces and entered her home town on October 18, 1868, at the head of the Cuban forces as a flag bearer of the Division of Bayamo, taking part in the first battles waged for the liberty of Cuba. She was the first woman to fight in the Cuban ranks in the defense of her country, and she remained in the Cuban forces until August, 1871, when she was taken prisoner.
IW note: Figueredo’s autobiography, La abanderada de 1868:Candelaria Figueredo (hija de Perucho) Autobiografia, was published posthumously in 1929.