Temporary traveling exhibition "The Heroes of Baler". Pamplona.
From 15/07/2019 to 14/08/2019. Every week, on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays
2019 marks the 120th anniversary of the end of the siege of Baler. The Army Museum wants to commemorate this anniversary with a temporary exhibition that brings to the general public most of the facets of the siege suffered in the church of Baler, Luzon Island, Philippines, by a detachment of fifty Spaniards belonging to the Expeditionary Hunters Battalion No. 2, who, totally incommunicado, presented under the direction of their officers such a determined resistance in such adverse circumstances that they deserved the praise of their enemies and obtained the immediate recognition of the nation, to then suffer little by little oblivion and, what is worse, the ignorance of the real reasons and circumstances that occurred in that scenario.
For this reason, this exhibition aims to elaborate a story based on direct sources to bring the protagonists of this event out of anonymity. Those known in their time as "Heroes of Baler", later became remembered as "The last of the Philippines".