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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The indio leader
(The Chronicle Magazine, 1964-02-29)
MAGNIFICENT eulogies on General Emilio Aguinaldo's life in our national history as a freedom fighter, recalling his intense love of country and personal sacrifices during the most heroic period of our life as a people, ...
Aguinaldo's place in history
(Sunday Times Magazine, 1964-02-23)
TIME may afford a man the long perspective to reinforce his belief in personal destiny, yet it also works in such mysterious ways as to make any man, whatever his antecedents, its own plaything. Thus, General Emilio ...
Aguinaldo creature of his own age
(The Chronicle Magazine, 1964-02-29)
Born into a family that was not distinguished either for intellectual attainments or for economic prominence, Aguinaldo tasted a little of Spanish education, taught for a while, and then took to commerce as a means of ...
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 ...
Mabini: A silhouette
(Weekly Graphic, 1964-07-22)
When General Arthur MacArthur deemed it " absolutely essential" to deport Mabini, and Governor William Howard Taft refused to allow the patriot to return to the country without first taking the oath of allegiance, they ...