Trijn Rembrands [SEP] conflict
Trijn Rembrands
Trijn Rembrands (1557–1638) is known as the heroine of the Spanish Siege of Alkmaar during the Eighty Years' War in 1573, when she allegedly served in the defence as a soldier. 
She was married to the textile merchant Cornelis Reyersz. In 1661 described as an example of both men and women fighting with equal bravery during the war: public memorial ceremonies were held for her in 1777 and 1865, and she is the subject of an opera, "Alkmaar Trijn".
References.
-
a source as an unusually fearless woman who worked night and day carrying earth to the city walls to rebuild the defense line.
- 1572: Maria van Schooten participates in the defense during the siege of Haarlem by Spanish troops, dies and are granted a military funeral.
- 1573: Trijn Rembrands allegedly participates in the defence of Alkmaar.
- 1576: Portuguese explorer Pedro de Magalhães de Gandavo reports that some Tupinamba Indian women of northeastern Brazil "give up all the duties of women and imitate men, and follow