The forgotten crest of a soldier woman

Abstract

Born in Vila de Cachoeira, more specifically in the parish of São José das Itapororócas, Maria Quitéria de Jesus stood out in the campaign for the independence of Bahia as a valiant soldier of the Parachute Battalion. The change of her family to the territory of the village of Tanquinho, still part of the same parish, occurred when Maria Quitéria was still a child, and the political divisions that came to take place, with the Empire and the Republic, compromised the memories of her the homeland with the sloppiness of the State and the large-scale connivance of its drivers. In these territories, the population is characterized by the strong miscegenation and absorption of the cultural values of the natives. If there is still some vestige of the old site where Maria Quiteria's parents lived and gave their life, much is due to the remnants that, through the testimonies given in testimony, allowed to trace the location of the site Licurizeiro.