Talk:Pancha Carrasco

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A fact from Pancha Carrasco appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 22 November 2007. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Pancha Carrasco became Costa Rica's first woman in the military by joining the defending forces at the Battle of Rivas?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2007/November.

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Several sources seem to agree that she was born in 1826 and 64 years old when she died in 1890. But there are a couple of discrepancies in the "Biography" section of her Wiki article: (1) She was married for the first time in 1834 - that would have made her only 8 years old! (2) "In 1856, when William Walker and his filibusteros invaded Costa Rica...", she was 30 years old, not 40. Esaons (talk) 15:24, 8 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Costa Rica seems pretty convinced about the 1816 date - they issued a stamp for her 200th birthday in 2016. [1] Stan (talk) 12:11, 20 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]