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What he likes Polycarpa liked the dressmaking especially because he could get information on the movements of the troops. Since she was a child she learned the dressmaking and exercised it later as a contribution to the cause. Subversibas activities of the Pola, began at his young age, helping the Gerrillas of this time. From very young the pola dreamed of the freedom that for those days was impossible to achieve so she herself joined to fight to reach it. Pole was assigned the hard task of buying war material. The pola was a very brave woman because she herself was in charge of taking and receiving messages to the armies that supported the cause of Antonio Nariño. Recruited the youth for war. It was not an easy task to recruit the young people and convince them that the struggle and the danger were worthwhile, therefore they took a risk every day to get it. What he does not like T he pola hated slav...

Your routine Policarpa during her adolescence, work of dressmaking, in January 1812, Policarpa moved to Santa Fe, where she was received as a nanny and lady of needle, actively collaborated in the development of uniforms and jackets, belts for beasts, cleaning of weapons and preparation of food for Santa Fe. He was working clandestinely distilling brandy, a procedure he had known since his stay in Guaduas, where the best aniseed in the region was produced, he carried out intelligence work on the movements of the Spanish troops.

Policarpa Salavarrieta  Full name: Policarpa Salavarrieta Ríos Age: Twenty two years Nationality: Viceroyalty of New Granada Birthplace : January 26, 1795 Guaduas, Viceroyalty of New Granada Occupation Policarpa Salavarrieta dedicated herself to dressmaking, and little by little she learned about and involved in independence activities, around 1809. On Sunday, July 22, the news of the cry of Independence and the events that aroused and preceded it met in Guaduas. Before the call of enlistment made in the towns to form the militias, as much the brother-in-law of Policarpa as his Bibiano brother was gotten up to the army in formation. Some time later, Policarpa moved to Santafé, where she was received as a nanny and a lady in need, in January 1812, at the home of Mrs. María Matea Martínez de Zaldúa. Thanks to his ability to sew, he frequently visited the most imposing houses of the capital, which served to clarify in his mind the d...

Physical description The pola is a woman with a brunette complexion, wavy black hair, well defined nose, full lips and thin eyebrows. She was a woman with a thick frame and large dark brown eyes. She participated in the cry of independence of July 20, 1810 at age 14. Policarpa Salavarrieta is the most representative woman of the Colombian independence revolution. To be The image of Policarpa has been used several times on Colombian banknotes and coins. The house of the Salavarrieta Ríos family is still preserved as a museum, it is not the most intimate, sumptuous or well constructed of the villa, but neither is it small or miserable.