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Who buried General Gregorio del Pilar?
(Philippine Free Press, 1951-01-27)According to most Philippine history textbooks, del Pilar was buried by the Americans immediately after the battle. The probable source of the accepted version is the book American Occupation of the Philippines by James ... -
He fought at Tirad Pass
(Philippine Free Press, 1951-01-27)Somewhere east of Candon, over the jagged peaks of the Cordillera , is a tiny mountain pass which Ilocano mothers point out to their sons as a symbol of Filipino heroism. This is Tirad Pass. A young general by the name ... -
Gregorio H. Del Pilar, the hero of Tirad Pass
(The Filipino Teacher, 1951-03)There was in the town of Bulacan, province of Bulacan, a lanky and unobtrusive swarthy stripping, but spruce, smug, debonair, brisk and handsome, with small head, dark, restless eyes, long nose, and thin lips, who jumbled ... -
Andres Bonifacio and the outbreak of the Katipunan Revolt
(Philippine Journal of Education, 1952-10)The Philippine Revolution was an event of great importance and significance in our history. It represented the united effort, will and purpose of the Filipino people to secure for themselves and their posterity the blessings ... -
Juan Luna - painter and patriot
(Philippine Journal of Education, 1952-10-01)HAVE you ever seen the paintings called the Blood Compact and Miguel Lopez de Legaspi, which now hang in historic Malacañang Palace? These are two of Juan Luna’s best known works. The former canvas, painted in Paris, ... -
The battle above the clouds
(Philippine Journal of Education, 1952-11)"It was a battle above the clouds I saw the youngest and bravest Filipino general trying to align his men to detain the American forces who were pursuing him, so that he could protect the retreat of Aguinaldo, I saw him ... -
The death of General Gregorio del Pilar in the famous battle of Tirad Pass (Dec. 1, 1899)
(The Filipino Teacher, 1953-11)"Who is there," once asked the late President Manuel L. Quezon, " that can tread the level of loyalty and gallantry exhibited by Gregorio del Pilar, who, like a Spartan soldier, offered his life as a holocaust to duty?" ... -
Gregorio H. Del Pilar - The boy
(Philippine Free Press, 1954-11-13)Who would ever think that one of the bravest generals of our revolutions , the man who led 60 men to fight against 300 American sharpshooters in the "Battle of the Clouds," learned his marskmanship by practising on a sumpit ... -
The hero who could have been a teacher
(The Filipino Teacher, 1955-01)General Gregorio del Pilar, the defender of Tirad Pass and the youngest hero of the Philippine Revolution, as a small child nurtured the ambition of becoming a teacher someday. This was the reason why he took up Bachelor ... -
A revolutionario recalls the Battle of Tirad Pass
(Philippine Free Press, 1956-12)The man who looked up to the pile of checks he was signing was an old man, dark and lean. A wide smile lighted his weather-beaten face. He extended a welcoming hand to the writer. The man was Captain Isidro Wenceslao, the ... -
The young man as a revolutionary
(This Week, 1956-12-09)LATE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, when the Philippines was filled with the heady libertarian ideals and principles of the propaganda movement generated by the ilustrados in the homeland and in the Peninsula, a young man from ... -
Juan Luna: A biographical sketch
(The Philippine History, 1957)In a banquet gathered in the English Restaurant, in metropolitan, in 1884, the Filipino community present were jubilant. For the first time this community, in a very festive mood, celebrated a big event. In that gathering ... -
The soul of the revolution
(Philippine Free Press, 1957-11-30)If Apolinario Mabini, the Sublime Paralytic, was the brains of the revolution and Emilio Jacinto the heart of the Philippine libertarian struggle, then Andres Bonifacio, oftentimes known as the Great Plebeian, was undoubtedly ... -
A soldier of the revolution
(This Week, 1958-11-30)MARCH 22, 1896, is a day that shall always be etched in my memory. For on this date I took my oath as a full-fledged member of the "Balagay Uliran," a Katipunan unit located in San Nicolas, Bulacan, before serious-minded ... -
My father
(Historical Bulletin, 1959-03-01)THE PHILIPPINES FREE PRESS requests that I write something pertaining to the daily life of General Aguinaldo - his habits, customs, opinions on topics, his likes and dislikes, I gladly do so. I shall begin with his daily ... -
Juan Luna and the "Spoliarium"
(In the Grade School, 1959-10)During the early part of 1883 in Rome, an ambitious Ilokano student, fired by the enthusiasm to make a name for himself and his country, met his dream which was later to place the small obscure town of Badoc, llocos Norte, ... -
The last days of Apolinario Mabini
(Philippine Free Press, 1960-05-14)THERE is an old nipa house on Calle Nagtahan, in the district of Sampaloc, Manila. It stands by the river, a the northern approach of the bridge leading to Pandacan. This house is owned by the Philippine Historical ... -
Del Pilar-The Filipino Leonidas
(Philippine Free Press, 1960-12-03)A Romantic figure in Philippine history is the 24-years old general who magnificently took part in the Battle of Tirad Pass on December 2, 1899, when 60 ill-equipped Filipinos engaged 300 better-armed American sharpshooters ... -
Mabini's capture
(Philippine Free Press, 1961-08-12)Many of us know that Apolinario Mabini was captured by the Americans, imprisoned in Manila and later exiled in Guam. But only a few know where and how he was captured. Mabini did not relish the idea of surrender to a ... -
A marker for Mabini
(Sunday Times Magazine, 1961-09-24)A HISTORICAL marker in honor of Apolinario Mabini and other Filipino patriots was unveiled and dedicated recently at Asan Point Service Community, the site where they once lived as exiles. Last July 23 , the 97th anniversary ...
