1900 - The Battle of Mabitac that spelled victory for the Filipino freedom fighters against the imperialist American invaders takes place in Laguna one and one-half years into the protracted Philippine-American War (1899-1914); Cailles, acting operations chief in the first zone of Manila, had earlier defiantly raised the Filipino flag in the headquarters he established at Santa Cruz, Laguna from where he directed operations against the enemy under Gen. Henry Lawton; using guerrilla tactics and mastery of the terrain, Filipino Gen. Juan Cailles leads the native soldiers in routing the militarily superior American forces commanded by Col. Benjamin F. Cheatahm, Jr.
1871 - Filipino revolutionary Gen. Francisco Macabulos, future liberator of Tarlac province during the Philippine Revolution against Spain, is born in La Paz, Tarlac; Macabulos will not go to Hong Kong to take part in the Biak-na-Bato Peace Pact momentarily forged by Hen. Emilio Aguinaldo with the Spanish colonial authorities and, instead, will form the Provisional Revolutionary Government of Central Luzon covering Nueva Ecija, Zambales, La Union, Pangasinan, and the Ilocos Region, with its own Constitution; unfortunately, Makabulos will not deem it worthy to fight the new colonizers, the imperialist United States and, thus, will early on capitulate to the enemy Gen. Douglas McArthur in June 1900, one year and four months into the protracted Philippine-American War (1899-1914).
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