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Jeanne Merkus

Dutch guerilla soldier and political activist

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Jeanne Merkus (Batavia, 11 October 1839 – Utrecht, 1 February 1897), was a Dutch deaconess, guerilla soldier, and political activist.^[1]

She was an educated deaconess and worked tending the wounded in Paris during the Franco-Prussian War.

Between 1873 and 1876, she was a member of the Serbian rebel guerilla of Mićo Ljubibratić, participating in fighting the Ottoman Empire in Herzegovina, dressed as a male soldier and leading soldiers in battle.^[1]

She served by organizing the army medical service on the Serbian side during the Serbian–Turkish Wars (1876–1878).^[1]

She was famous in the contemporary international press and referred to as the "Joan of Arc of the Balkans."^[1]