National Registry of Historic Sites and Structures in the Philippines: Zapote Battlefield

Location: Zapote Road, Las Piñas-Bacoor Border (Region NCR)
Category: Building/Structures
Type: Structure, Bridge
Status: Level II - Historical marker
Marker date: 1952

Installed by: Philippines Historical Committee (PHC)

Marker text:

ZAPOTE BATTLEFIELD

ON THIS SITE THE FILIPINO REVOLUTIONARY FORCES FOUGHT TWO DECISIVE BATTLES: ONE AGAINST THE SPANISH FORCES, 17 FEBRUARY 1897, IN WHICH FILIPINO GENERAL EDILBERTO EVANGELISTA WAS KILLED; THE OTHER, AGAINST THE AMERICAN FORCES, 13 JUNE 1899, LED BY GENERAL H. W. LAWTON, WHO LATER WAS KILLED IN SAN MATEO, RIZAL, BY FILIPINO GENERAL LICERIO GERONIMO.

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LEVEL I - Sites and Structures declared as National Shrine, National Historical Landmark, National Historical Site, and National Monument (Entries with asterisks)

LEVEL II - Sites and Structures declared as Heritage Zones/Historic Centers, Heritage Houses and bearing Historical Markers

DELISTED - Declared and/or marked historic sites and structures that were removed from the national registry

LIFTED - Sites and structures 50 years old and above removed of its presumption as Important Cultural Property (R.A. 10066)

Zapote Battlefield

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