A 63-year-old barangay tanod will mark his 12th year as a warrior of Datu Lapu-Lapu in Saturday’s reenactment dubbed Kadaugan sa Mactan. Ingrid Casio of barangay Buaya has been a member of an ...

The reenactment will begin at 8 a.m. at the Mactan Liberty Shrine, following a wreath-laying ceremony commemorating the April 27, 1521, victory of Lapulapu and his warriors against Magellan's ...

The first defeat inflicted by Filipinos on Western invaders took place on April 27, 1521, on Mactan Island when followers of a local chief, Datu Lapu-Lapu, repulsed a force of 49 Spaniards, with some ...

Pigafetta’s account, in the 1969 book, “Magellan’s Voyage: A Narrative Account of the First Circumnavigation,” said warriors of Mactan rained arrows, iron-tipped bamboo lances and stones ...

Lapu-Lapu and his warriors defeated Ferdinand Magellan and his men on the beach of the little island. There is now a new battle going on in and for Mactan. The nine congressmen of Cebu have filed a ...

Lapu-Lapu met Magellan on the beaches of Mactan on April 27, 1521. His warriors – numbering about 1,000 – routed Magellan’s crew of about 50 soldiers with wooden shields and spears ...

The inspiration behind Lapu Lapu, a Philippine-inspired breakfast window in a leafy corner of Kentlands Market Square, was a 16th-century warrior who turned away explorer Ferdinand Magellan in the ...

The KadaugansaMactan (Victory in Mactan) is an annual commemoration of the historic battle on April 27, 1521, where DatuLapulapu and his warriors repelled Spanish forces led by Ferdinand Magellan.

He was an armor-clad warrior in his 30’s or 40’s, equipped with cutting-edge European weaponry, and seemed more than a match for any Mactan warrior on the battlefield.