Agustina de Aragón

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Agustina Raimunda Maria Saragossa Doménech, "Agustina de Aragón" (1786-1857) was a heroic defender of Zaragoza during the War of Spanish Independence. which itself is regarded s the latter half of the Peninsular War by the British. There has been discussion as to whether Agustina was born in Reus (province of Tarragona) or in other places, but recent Aragonese bibliography locates her birth in 1786 in Reus. Agustina Zaragoza married to the 16 years with Joan Vila-dry Rock, artillery end. This it participated from the beginning in the War of Spanish Independence, being in the battle of the Bruc. The events of the war took it to Agustina to him and to Zaragoza. During the siege of Zaragoza, Agustina carried out the heroic action that made it famous. Having fallen hurt or died all the defenders of the called door of the Opening, the French troops prepared themselves to take it to the assault. Being situation desperate Agustina, which it was member of a group of women who took care of the numerous wounded, was able to shoot a tube on the French troops who ran on the apparently defenseless entrance. The French attackers, fearing an ambush, fought themselves in distant and new defenders went to cover the opening once again, defending themselves the city. Agustina de Aragón died in Ceuta, the 20 of May of 1856, to the 71 years of Age. Until 1870 their rest to Zaragoza were not transferred, resting first in the Pillar and from the 14 of June of 1908, their rest lie in the chapel of the Announcement of the Church of Our Lady of the Opening, being venerated like those of a great heroin that with value and decision repelled the adversities and overcame the enemy. It is considered like one of the most representative symbols of the Spanish resistance against the Napoleonic invaders.