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Gen. Ananias Diokno y Noblejas |
1901 - Filipino soldiers fighters led by General Ananias Diokno y Noblejas are ambushed
while trying to fight off the invading imperialist American forces in
the island of Panay, two years into the protracted and bloody Philippine-American War (1899-1914); under the general command of Gen. Martin Delgado y Bermejo, the
Panay forces have been initially operating independently of the
Philippine Republic of Gen. Emilio F. Aguinaldo during the Revolution
against Spain although Aguinaldo would later send Tagalog forces under the command of Gen. Diokno and
Gen. Leandro Fullon y Locson months before the onset of the Fil-Am War;
said to have been sent to unify the Visayan revolutionaries and help
defeat the Spaniards, Gen. Diokno had organized the command of Batallion Maluya and presented successful battles against the Spaniards and, together with the forces of Delgado and Fullon Gen. Diokno, presented strong resistance
against the vile invading Americans for a time; Gen. Diokno, who has
been compelled to conduct a guerrilla war with a few men left in his
control following the February 2 surrender of Gen. Delgado to
enemy Bald Eagle Gen. Robert P. Hughes, will be wounded and captured but
later will patriotically refuse the American co-optation offer to occupy the directorship of the Bureau of Agriculture.
Photo credit:
http://philippineamericanwar.webs.com/thewarinthevisayas.htm
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