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Friday, November 18, 2011
18 NOVEMBER
1899 - Nine months into the protracted and bloody Philippine-American War (1899-1914) the Filipino freedom fighters engage in guerrilla warfare as soon as enemy General Arthur MacArthur occupies the Tarlac towns of Gerona, Paniqui, and Tarlac; some six days earlier, a Filipino council of war decided to continue
the war for freedom through guerrilla warfare against the invading
Bald Eagle forces even as the fledgling Philippine Republic retreats
further northward with the fall of the capital, Tarlac to the imperialist United States forces.
1848 - Trinidad Tecson y Perez, future Filipina revolutionary ("Henerala Ningning") and Red Cross organizer, is born at San Miguel de Mayumo, Bulacan; Tecson would become an active member of Logia de Adapcion,
the women's masonic lodge of the Philippines, and later be initiated
into the women's chapter of the secret, pro-independence society, Kagalanggalangang Katipunan nang manga Anak nang Bayan (KKK); as the Revolution against Spain breaks out, she would fight with fellow Filipino Katipuneros in twelve battles under five generals,
including Gen. Francisco Makabulos, gen. Isidoro Torres, and Gen.
Mariano Llanera; under the period of imperialist American Occupation,
Tecson would be the first Filipina to organize the Red Cross, eventually being dubbed the "Mother of Philippine Red Cross."
Photo credit: http://www.bulacan.gov.ph/generalinfo/hero.php?id=44
Photo credit: http://www.bulacan.gov.ph/generalinfo/hero.php?id=44
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