In this case, our heroine is Agustina de Aragón (Agustina Saragossa Domenech or Agustina Zaragoza after Castilianizing her surname).
His intervention in the sieges suffered by the city of Zaragoza during the War of Independence in 1808 is known to all. During the first Siege, after the fall of almost all the defenders of the Portillo gate, Agustina fired the cannon and the French withdrew. General Palafox decorated her and named her an artillerywoman of the Artillery Battalion of the Army of Aragon.
In some files found, belonging to Manuel Coleta the Artillery enabler, appears a list, dated September 8, 1808, of the surviving artillerymen (97) of the first Siege to pay the "payroll". Even having been decorated and "catalogued" as a heroin, the enabler thought that the payer would not believe that there was a female artilleryman and made a note in the margin (sorry for the quality of the image):
By order of H.E. (His Excellency of him, Palafox)
Source:Herald of Aragon (31/10/2010)