Talk:Maria Úrsula de Abreu e Lencastre

How much fiction?
Which one of these women is the real one? Maria Ursula Lancastro y Abreu - Maria Ursula d'Abreu e Lencastro. Both of them are born in Brazil, both in 1882 (just so that they are 18 when their narrative lets them join as a soldier in year 1700: That just means that their birth years are speculation!). Both served in Amboina. None of the articles are well researched anyway, as both articles are short and are inter-linked in a sloppish way with other WP articles. I can find sources for both names on the internet (and others like Maria Úrsula de Abreu e Lencastre), though no ones that I could verify as reliable. As with other women who served in the military in that era (see e.g. Marie Schellinck), there are many legends and falsehoods built around women who (reputedly) distinguished themselves, and even books published before 1900 are possibly only repeating legends. --Enyavar (talk) 17:04, 31 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Merged. Mathglot (talk) 21:18, 12 September 2018 (UTC)