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The Battle of Alapan (Filipino: Labanan sa Alapan, Spanish: Batalla de Alapan) was fought on May 28, 1898, and was the first military victory of the Filipino Revolutionaries led by Emilio Aguinaldo after his return to the Philippines from Hong Kong.
The Battle of Ciseupan (Indonesian: Pertempuran Ciseupan) was a clash between Indonesian nationalists from the Siliwangi Division and Dutch forces. The Dutch launched an attack on the village of Ciseupan, West Java , Indonesia with the objective of ambushing the Indonesian nationalists that were resting in the village during their long march.
Year Date Event 200 BCE "Dvipantara" or "Yawadvipa", a mystic Hindu kingdom is mentioned in India's earliest epic, the Ramayana; Sugriva, the chief of Rama's army dispatched his men to Yawadvipa in search of Sita then later used by the Indianized islander of Java Island and kingdom of Portugal to name the island during the age of discovery.
Indonesia: Republic of South Maluku: Indonesian government victory Moluccas incorporated by Indonesia; Operation Trikora (1961–1962) Indonesia Netherlands Netherlands New Guinea; Indonesian government victory Military stalemate [1] Western New Guinea ceded to the United Nations then to Indonesia [2] [3] Cross border attacks in Sabah (1962 ...
The fierce Battle of Surabaya on October to November 1945 saw the birth of Tentara Keamanan Rakyat (TKR – People's Security Army) – predecessor to the current Indonesian National Armed Forces – on 5 October 1945; this was a move taken to formalise, unite, and organise the splintered pockets of independent troopers ('laskar') across ...
The park covers an area of 5 hectares (12 acres), purportedly at the site where the Battle of Alapan occurred. It also features a 35.05 m (115.0 ft) flagpole, which used to be the old Independence Flagpole in Rizal Park in Manila. [5] In 2019, a sanctum of Katipunan revolutionary flags was unveiled at the National Flag Shrine. [6]
Priests Mariano Gómez, Jacinto Zamora, and José Burgos (L-R, remembered in Philippine history as Gomburza) In the late 18th century, Criollo (or Insulares, "islanders", as they were locally called) writers began spreading the ideals of the French Revolution in the Philippines. At the same time, a royal decree ordered the secularization of ...
The history of Indonesia has been shaped by its geographic position, natural resources, a series of human migrations and contacts, wars and conquests, as well as by trade, economics and politics. Indonesia is an archipelagic country of 17,000 to 18,000 islands stretching along the equator in Southeast Asia .