History comes alive at Angels Gate Park Old Fort MacArthur Days at Angels Gate Park

Saturday was a mixture of the old and new, victory and defeat, and the simulated and the all-too-real. Just ask Tony Ortega, 88. He was a commander of a battalion of Philippine troops during the battle against the Japanese for Bataan. Ortega was among the 75,000 allied prisoners of the Japanese forced to march 90 to 100 miles following the surrender of American and Philippine forces.

http://www.dailybreeze.com/news/articles/8377247.html

Commemorate the 115th Year of the Founding of the Katipunan

On July 7, 1892, three dedicated patriot, Andres Bonifacio, Teodoro Plata and Ladislao Diwa founded the Katipunan, the secret society of patriots in a house in Azcaraga Street in Manila. The Katipunan was organized after the Spanish authorities clamped down on the La Liga Filipina, founded by Jose Rizal and only lasted for several days until it was outlawed in July 2, 1892. By August 23, 1896, when the Spanish authorities discovered the organization, it has organized an undeground network of more than 30, 000 members all over the nation it was ready to launch the armed revolution against Spain. Today, we are not farther from the same unjust and repressive conditions under Spain. The US-Arroyo regime on July 15, 2007 will implement a new martial rule system under a law named Human Security Act or the Anti-Terror Law abhorred by the people...

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/07/09/18434243.php

NAMED CAMPAIGNS - PHILIPPINE INSURRECTION

Manila, 4 February - 17 March 1899. During the War with Spain, Emilio Aguinaldo (who had led an unsuccessful insurrection in 1896-97) organized a native army in the Philippines and secured control of several islands, including much of Luzon. Cession of the Philippines to the United States (Treaty of Paris, 10 December 1898) disappointed many Filipinos, and on 4 February 1899 Aguinaldo's followers clashed with American troops near Manila. The Americans, numbering about 12,000 combat troops under Maj. Gen. Elwell S. Otis, defeated Aguinaldo's force of some 40,000 men and suppressed an attempted uprising in Manila.

http://www.army.mil/CMH/reference/picmp.htm