Marinduque Revolutionary Force

Location: Torrijos, Marinduque

Category: Sites/Events

Type: Site

Status: Level II - Historical marker

Marker date: September 13, 2000

Installed by: National Historical Institute (NHI)

Marker text:

MARINQUDUE REVOLUTIONARY FORCE 

AFTER THE OUTBREAK OF THE HOSTILITIES BETWEEN THE FILIPINOS AND AMERICANS ON FEBRUARY 4, 1899, THE MARINDUQUE REVOLUTIONARY FORCE, COMPOSED OF INFANTRY AND MILITIA BATTALIONS, WAS ORGANIZED BY GOV. MARTIN LARDIZABAL PURSUANT TO THE ORDER OF GEN. MARIANO TRIAS OF THE SOUTHERN COMMAND ON MAY 6 1900, THE INFANTRY BATALLION WAS CONVERTED INTO FOUR GUERILLA UNITS. 

WHEN GOV. LARDIZABAL BECAME ILL, HE APPOINTED CAPT. MAXIMO ABAD AS CHIEF OF THE MARINDUQUE REVOLUTIONARY FORCE. THEY DEFEATED THE AMERICAN FORCES IN THE BATTLE OF PAYE IN BOAC ON JULY 31, 1900 AND IN THE BATTLE OF PULANG LUPA IN TORRIJOS ON SEPTEMBER 13, 1900. ON MARCH 1901, GOV. LARDIZABAL, CAPT. PEDRO MADRIGAL AND LT. GUMERSINDO DELA SANTA WERE CAPTURED AND TAKEN TO MANILA WHERE THEY WERE INCARCERATED AT FORT SANTIAGO. THIS EVENT WAS FOLLOWED BY THE TREACHEROUS CAPTURE OF GEN. EMILIO AGUINALDO IN PALANAN, ISABELA ON MARCH 23, 1901. ON APRIL 15, 1901, COL. ABAD AND THE REMAINING REVOLUTIONARY FORCE OF MARINDUQUE SURRENDERED TO THE AMERICAN FORCES IN BOAC.