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Andres Bonifacio & Tandang Sora (Melchora Aquino) |
1896 - The first encounter of the Philippine Revolution against colonial Spain
occurs at the barn of Melchora Aquino in Caloocan when Spanish civil
guards and infantrymen opened fire at the temporary headquarters of the
Katipuneros six days after the official discovery of the underground revolutionary movement, the Kataastaasang, Kagalanggalangang Katipunan nang manga Anak nang Bayan (KKK); occurring a day after the National Assembly (Kataastaasang Kapulungan) that transformed the KKK into a revolutionary national government
and declared a nationwide armed revolution of independence, Supremo
Andres Bonifacio successfully leads the counterattack of fellow
Katipuneros, forcing the outnumbered Spaniards to retreat.
; a similar incident transpires in Pasong Tamo, with forces of the
colonial Spaniards and that of the Katipunan revolutionary government (Haring Bayang Katagalugan/Republika ng Katagalugan).
1901 - Filipino nationalists and officers of the Philippine Republic, Apolinario Mabini y Maranan, along with his
brother, and Gen. Artemio Ricarte y Garcia, and Aquilino Randeza remain unyielding in
their loyalty to the Filipino flag and their compatriots, refusing to
swear allegiance to the imperialist United States flag and/or Constitution even as their exiled
companions in Guam yield to the pressures of invading American
authorities and take their oaths
before the symbol(s) of the Bald Eagle nation; Mabini and Ricarte are high-ranking
officers of the Philippine Republic who were caught, imprisoned and
exiled by the enemy American forces following the outbreak of the bloody
and protracted Filipino-American War (1899-1914) in February 1899.
Photo credit: http://www.qcpubliclibrary.org/qcmanuscript.php
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