Maria da Fonte

Heroine of Portugal

The Maria da Fonte was a women-led rural tax-riot in Portugal that sparked a provincial revolt (in Minho) and a civil war in the north of the country between the then-ruling conservative liberals (Cartistas) and an ad-hoc coalition of progressives and absolutists (Patuleias). A marching tune was composed by Angelo Frondoni (an Italian musician who made career in Portugal), and it became a popular progressive anthem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XE4UmdEeL2w

Viva a Maria da Fonte
Com as pistolas na mão
Para matar os cabrais
Que são falsos à nação

É avante Portugueses
É avante sem temer
Pela santa Liberdade
Triunfar ou perecer

Viva a Maria da Fonte
A cavalo e sem cair
Com as pistolas à cinta
A tocar a reunir

Lá raiou a liberdade
Que a nação há-de aditar
Glória ao Minho que primeiro
O seu grito fez soar

Or, in English:

Long live Maria da Fonte
With pistols in her hand
To kill the government’s forces (PM was Costa Cabral)
Who are traitors

Forward Portuguese
Forward fearlessly
For holy liberty
To triumph or perish

Long live Maria da Fonte
With her strong horse
With pistols in her belt
Sounding the call to arms

There shone the rays of liberty
That the nation will follow
Glory to the Minho which was the first
To make its voice heard