1875 - Gregorio del Pilar y Sempio, future Filipino revolutionary general and Philippine-American War (1899-1914), hero, is born in San Jose, Bulakan, Bulakan; he assisted his uncle, Marcelo H. Del Pilar, in his great propaganda work against the abuses of the Spanish friars and when the Philippine Revolution against Spain broke out in 1896, Gregorio or "Goyo" volunteered for military service through Col. Vicente Enriquez; one of the youngest generals, del Pilar would be known as the "Hero of Tirad Pass" during the Fil-Am War, fighting the enemy Bald Eagle soldiers to his last breathe in the bid to enable the escape of his President, Gen. Emilio F. Aguinaldo of the Philippine Republic-under-imperialist-siege.
1897 - "Purely volunteer" Filipino mediator Pedro A. Paterno communicates to the Spanish governor-general Primo de Rivera that the leader of the Filipino revolutionary movement, Gen. Emilio Aguinaldo y Famy, has accepted the Spanish proposal of amnesty; to forge the amnesty pact, Paterno, who did not join the Philippine Revolution of 1896 but was appointed one of the framers of Aguinaldo's short-lived Malolos Constitution, has shuttled between Manila and Biyak-na-Bato; the rocky mountainous town of Biyak na Bato in Bulakan province was where the revolutionary forces retreated to after a series of defeats following the demoralization of many Katipuneros as news of Aguinaldo's power grab from, and execution, of the instigator of the Revolution, Andres Bonifacio y de Castro, spread in mid-1897.
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