The Heroes of Baler: The Story of the Last of the Philippines.
From 03/04/2019 to 01/07/2019. Every week, on 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, through original pieces belonging mostly to the collection of the Army Museum and which are currently in the reserve areas, 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", came to be remembered later as "The last of the Philippines", in a process of which we want to make known their origins and motivations, highlight the impact of their performance on their contemporaries, as well as highlight the emotional and cultural ties of the former Spanish colony with the metropolis, still very much alive. It is not surprising, therefore, that the Republic of the Philippines has declared June 30 as Spanish-Philippine Friendship Day, the date of the issuance in 1899 by President Emilio Aguinaldo of the Tarlac decree, in which it was ordered that the members of the detachment, due to their courage, were regarded and treated as friends and not as prisoners.
Without a doubt the most important source of this event is the publication of the 2nd Lieutenant Saturnino Martín Cerezo, "The siege of Baler, notes and memories", where, following a chronological criterion, he notes with precision the smallest details of the siege, with a direct and reflective style, justifying each and every one of his decisions, without renouncing to transmit to the reader his doubts and his moments of weakness, with a great literary style.
To transmit to the public the voice of the head of the detachment from the Army Museum, through the account of the Institute of Military History and Culture, some of its fragments adapted to 280 characters will be tweeted in the coming months, in order to make the public participate in the experiences of the besieged and besiegers of the church of Baler 120 years later.
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Reproduce la vivienda tipica filipina
maqueta casa de nipa -
Maqueta de puente de hierro sobre el rio pasig (Manila)
Participó en la exposición general de filipinas de madrid en 1887 -
Escudo de los Igorrotes
Utilizado por las tribus Kalingas para efectuar los disparos de flecha -
Cuchara Igorrote
objetos de artesanias locales en Luzón -
Bandera Joloana
Tomada como trofeo en la expedición española al Sultanato de Joló -
BALER
Atlas de España -
Anito
Idolo antropomorfo de la Isla de Luzón -
PETO
Coraza defensiva fabricada en bronce y asta de carabao, perteneciente a personajes de cierta relevancia social en Filipinas. -
Mantón de Manila, S. XIX
El mantón se encuentra entre los objetos cotidianos representativos de las Islas Filipinas, aunque su origen se encuentra en China. -
Machete filipino KRIS
Destaca su empuñadura en forma de pájaro -
Arma blanca filipina
Machete de las islas Visayas, Binangon. -
CARTEL EXP TEMP LOS HEROES DE BALER
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Llegada del Batallón Expedicionario a Manila en octubre de 1896
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Llegada del Batallón Expedicionario a Manila en octubre de 1896-Bajo un arco del triunfo
Llegada del Batallón Expedicionario a Manila en octubre de 1896-Bajo un arco del triunfo -
Camisa filipina
Camisas masculinas de uso diario entre la población filipina realizadas en fibras vegetales -
BALER
Estampa de las corbetas Descubierta y Atrevida fondeadas en Vavao (Islas Filipinas) -
BALER - Bastón de mando en Carey
Perteneció al capitán médico Rogelio Vigil de Quiñones -
BALER
Álbum con muestras de madera de Filipinas, 1887. -
24. Acta de Capitulación. Capitanía Gral de Manila. 14-08-1898
El apoyo de EE.UU a los insurrectos filipinos en la guerra contra España aceleró la derrota española -
23.- Medalla de la Campaña de Filipinas
Medalla de la campaña de Filipinas de 1896-1898 del soldado Marcelo Adrián Obregón -
22. Leopoldina
Leopoldina del Gral. Fernando Primo de Rivera -
21. Bastón de E. Aguinaldo, uno de los líderes del levantamiento contra el colonialismo español
Fue el primer presidente de la República de Filipinas -
20. Desembarco en Manila, 1896.
Tropas españolas a su llegada a Filipinas -
19. ALYMER -FILIPINAS 1898- MINIATURAS FUNDIDAS EN 1970-1980
Esta miniatura muestra la uniformidad de las unidades indígenas del ejército Español en Filipinas -
18. SABLE DE OFICIAL
Modelo 1882. Capitán General Camilo Polavieja. Producido en la Fábrica de Armas de Toledo -
17. Mandil del Katipunan, ca. 1898
Katipunan era una sociedad que propugnaba el levantamiento armado de los filipinos -
16. Mujeres ataviadas con el traje nacional filipino
Destaca el pañuelo o alampay sobre los hombros