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Luisa Fortuna

Luisa Fortuna (1892-1911) was a Mexican schoolteacher and revolutionary during the Mexican Revolution. She was engaged to marry the rebel leader Abraham Reyes before sacrificing herself in an attempt to save his life during the Battle of Escalera.

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Luisa Fortuna was born in Campo Mirada, Chihuahua, Mexico in 1892, one of three children. Her older brother Emilio worked as a stagecoach driver, while her younger sister Miranda was still a young girl when the Mexican Revolution broke out. Luisa, a schoolteacher, became infatuated with the rebel leader Abraham Reyes and joined his movement at the start of the revolution in 1911, and Reyes promised to marry her once he became President of Mexico; however, he secretly had no intent of marrying a peasant woman, despite his outwardly populist views. Fortuna was imprisoned during the course of the uprising against Colonel Agustin Allende, but her brother enlisted the help of Landon Ricketts and John Marston in freeing her from a Mexican Army prison. Afterwards, she decided to commit herself full-time to the revolution, seeing to it that her father and mother moved into the hills while her sister was shipped off to the Yucatan to work for a family friend. Her father was later killed by the army, who then fed his remains to their dogs. This steeled Luisa's resolve, and, with Marston's help, she went on to defeat the Mexican Army as it attempted to reinforce Escalera. During the final battle for the city, Reyes was captured by Major Raul Zubieta, and Marston confronted Zubieta and his men. Finding her fiancee in captivity, Fortuna charged at the soldiers with a knife, but they shot her in the chest three times, killing her. Marston avenged her by killing the three Mexican soldiers.

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