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Even in the Philippines, the 1945 battle by American and Filipino forces to liberate Manila is largely forgotten. Researchers and historians are trying to change that. This city was ravaged in WWII.
Mariano Numeriano Castañeda (20 December 1892 – 8 September 1970) was a Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of the Philippines from 1948 to 1951 and also served as Military Governor of Cavite during World War II.
Commanding General-Katipunan General [2] Brother Hilaro Aliño was another Katipunan General; Brothers Potenciano and Sulpicio Aliño were also active members of the Philippine revolution in the Visayas; Katipunan in Cebu; Cebu Revolutionary Government; First Philippine Republic; Talisay, Cebu: 7. Hilario Aliño: Commanding General-Katipunan ...
National historical marker installed in Brgy. Pio del Pilar, Makati, in 1983. del Pilar was born Pío Isidro y Castañeda in Barrio Culi-culi (now Pio del Pilar), San Pedro de Macati (present-day Makati) on July 11, 1860, to Isaac del Pilar, a farmer from Pasay, and Antonia Castaňeda, an embroider from San Felipe Neri (present-day Mandaluyong). [1]
In the mid-16th century, the areas of present-day Manila were governed by native rajahs. Rajah Matanda (whose real name was recorded by the Legaspi expedition as Ache) and his nephew, Rajah Sulayman "Rajah Mura" or "Rajah Muda" (a Sanskrit title for a Prince), ruled the Muslim communities south of the Pasig River , including Maynila while ...
A Manila Times editorial emphasized the victories of the Liga Popular Nacional against the regular Nacionalista Party; the latter was seen as being dominated by aristocrats, who are mostly mestizos. The election results were announced at the junction of the Puente de España and Escolta Street in Binondo , on a screen set up in front of the La ...
The Second EDSA Revolution, also known as the Second People Power Revolution, EDSA 2001, or EDSA II (pronounced EDSA Two or EDSA Dos, the Spanish word for "two"), was a political protest from January 17–20, 2001 which peacefully overthrew the government of Joseph Estrada, the thirteenth president of the Philippines. [2]
Romualdez' father was Don Miguel Lopez Romualdez, assemblyman for Leyte and Mayor of Manila [1] during World War II.His mother was Brigida Zialcita of Manila. Romualdez' father was the second of the three sons of Trinidad "Tidad" Lopez, eldest daughter of Spanish friar, Don Francisco Lopez of Granada, Spain (later of Burauen, Leyte), and Daniel Romuáldez of Pandacan, Manila, a tuberculosis ...