During the Second World War, the Japanese forces turned the San Agustin Church into a concentration camp for prisoners. As the Battle of Manila in 1945 draw to close, the Japanese held hostage priests and hundreds of residents inside the church. To drive out the remaining Japanese, American an...
CABIBI FESTIVAL,Lal-lo, Cagayan, August 1-4. The patronal town fiesta of Lallo, the former Cuidad Nueva Segovia – the capital of Cagayan during the Spanish colonial period is highlighted with street dancing, trade fair, Balikbayan tribute, among many others. ...
He was an Assistant Majority Floor Leader and Vice Chairman of the Committee on Trade and Industry during this time. He finished Bachelor of Arts in Asian Studies at the University of Redlands, California; studied law at the Ateneo de Manila University, and became a lawyer. While in law ...
built in March 2003, that stands on the same site of Basco’s first lighthouse and theAmerican periodtelegraphfacilities that connected Batanes with the central government until it was destroyed by the Japanese Imperial Army bombings at the start ofWorld War II. ...
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Cavite Mutiny, brief uprising of 200 Filipino troops and workers at the Cavite arsenal on January 20, 1872, which became the excuse for Spanish repression of the embryonic Philippine nationalist movement. Ironically, the harsh reaction of the Spanish aut