SAN MIGUEL, BULACAN—The National Historical Commission of the Philippines (NHCP) headed festivities of the 22nd Philippine-Spanish Friendship Day and the 126th annual commemoration of the start of the siege in Baler, Aurora on July 1. An earlier commemoration and equally significant remembrance was done at the house of Lt. Col.
SAN MIGUEL, BULACAN—The National Historical Commission of the Philippines headed festivities of the 22nd Philippine-Spanish Friendship Day and the 126th annual commemoration of the start of the siege in Baler, Aurora on July 1.
NHCP chairperson Lisa Guerrero Nakpil led the wreath-laying rites with Ambassador Miguel Utray Delgado of the Embassy of Spain. They were joined by officials of the Municipality of San Miguel, the Philippine National Police, the local government of the province of Bulacan, and descendants of Tecson. According to the NHCP, then-president Emilio Aguinaldo assigned Tecson as the leader of the Baler siege. Along with other soldiers from Bulacan, the military official helped end it, received the surrender of Spanish soldiers, and ensured they left unharmed.
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