Today in Philippine History (Philatelic Edition):
FEBRUARY 18, 1902
General Vicente Lukban was captured by American forces in Catubig, Samar.
On Feb. 27, 1902, the New York Times reported: “The officials of the War Department regard the capture of Lucban as the most important military event since Aguinaldo's capture.
He was run down on the Island of Samar. The place of his confinement is a tiny island in a bay on the north coast of Samar. Lucban is one of the most energetic and ferocious of rebels.
He is a half-breed, a mixture of Chinese and Filipino stock, and has been an irreconcilable from the first.
He had various fastnesses in the mountains of Samar, from which he would descend upon the coast towns, and his reign of terror was so complete that the entire population of the island paid tribute to him as the price of freedom from attack."
General Vicente Lukban (February 11, 1860 - November 16, 1916), was born in Labo, Camarines Norte.
He studied at the Ateneo Municipal de Manila, and took up Bachelor of Laws at the University of Santo Tomas and Colegio de San Juan de Letran.
He was Justice of the Peace and joined Freemasonry in 1884. He became a member of Andres Bonifacio’s Katipunan, and contributed funds from his cooperative.
During the Philippine Revolution, he joined Emilio Aguinaldo and was one of the officers who helped plan strategies and activities.
On Oct. 29, 1898, Aguinaldo appointed him Comandante Militar of the Bicol region, and was promoted General of Samar and Leyte.
When the Philippine-American War (Filipino-American War) broke out on Feb. 4, 1899, he established his arsenal in the mountains of Catbalogan and carried out guerrilla warfare.
The Americans accused him as the mastermind of the Balangiga Massacre where American troops were attacked and killed.
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