"Los Ultimos de Filipinas" - Spanish Song about the Siege of Baler (1898-1899)
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- On June 30, 1898, Filipino Revolutionary Forces laid siege on Baler in then Tayabas (now Aurora) province to force the surrender of less than 60 hold-out Spanish soldiers.
The siege turned out to be a protracted one - lasting 337 days - despite the Spanish troops being grossly outnumbered.
The Spanish troops belonging to the 2nd Expeditionary Battalion Cazadores of the Philippines under Captain Enrique de las Morenas secured themselves inside Baler Church - the only solid stone structure in the town - fortified and stocked it with supplies.
The Filipino revolutionaries under the command of Teodorico Luna attacked the Spanish garrison on the night of June 30 but failed to defeat the Spanish forces as they retreated to the fortified where they holed up for 11 months.
Despit being bombarded with regularity, running out of food and supplies and falling, the Spanish forces refused to yield and ignored the surrender feelers sent by the Filipinos.
They were unaware that Manila had fallen, the war had ended, and Spain had ceded the Philippines to the United States under the Treaty of Paris.
It wasn’t until June 2, 1899 that the remaining 37 out of the 57 who entered the church surrendered.
Then on June 30, 1899 - exactly a year after the siege began - Gen. Emilio Aguinaldo issued a decree granting the surrenderees safe passage back to Spain.
The day also marked the formal end of Filipino-Spanish hostilities.
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Philippine-Spanish Friendship Day (Spanish: Día de la Amistad Hispano-Filipina) celebrates the strong links between the Republic of the Philippines and the Kingdom of Spain every June 30. It commemorates the day when General Emilio Aguinaldo, president of the First Philippine Republic, issued a decree requiring the last Spanish soldiers who had been besieged for almost a year inside Baler's church be treated not as enemies and prisoners of war, but as friends. It also ordered that they receive the necessary permission for their return to Spain.
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This song is from the 1945 film Los Ultimos de Filipinas, about the aforementioned battle.
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TRANSLATOR'S NOTES
1. “Tres estados mayores” literally translates to three major states. However, the meaning in this context is probably idiomatic and not literal. "Three states" probably refer to the state of suffering or state of the siege.
In Veritine Conquistador's words:
"Les van a tener a raya (they will have it a line/stripe) is the verse immidiately preceding it, and since tres estados mayores begins with y, he's probably describing something he owns that has lines/stripes and 3 "states". Since it uses they could be referring to them(the Spaniards) or the Tagalogs. Could be a uniform or anything, but don't dig in too much with it. Perhaps the best translation to it would be condition."
2. “Riñones” literally means kidneys, and is probably an idiomatic expression.
3. I know very little Spanish. I translated this song with a combination of Google Translate, a minimal understanding of Spanish, and suggestions from some friends who know Spanish. Thanks to discord users Veritine Conquistador and Der Hauptman for their suggestions.
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SOURCES
Images:
“Flag of Spain (1785-1873, 1875-1931)”. Retrieved from commons.m.wiki...
“Coat of Arms of Spain under the House of Bourbon”. Retrieved from commons.m.wiki...
“Siege of Baler". Retrieved from encrypted-tbn0...
Video Footage:
“Cancion de Los Ultimos de Filipinas” uploaded by Fernando Cifuentes Duque via CZcams. Retrieved from • Cancion de Los ultimos...
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I don't get why some people dislike your vids when you're the only channel to preserve anthems
They're narrow-minded and think Spain is evil, America is good, and this channel sides with this or that when it doesn't. It really just exists to preserve history. So annoying when people get so polarised and extremist but with a shallow understanding. Thank God this channel exists. It's literally the Audio-Visual resource I never had as a schoolboy.
@@AI-hx3fx America, is the reason the Philippines is suffering in the first place, yes the Spanish treated Filipinos badly at times but America is indirectly destroying the Philippines ever since. in the Philippines, we were thought that the Spanish treated us badly, and that America saved us. I'm not being political but "most" of those who are against Marcos are obviously think America is our hero
They are brainwashed Nationalists. Hypocritical incels who hate Spain and at the same time, Love Americans. I wish those idiots would just swim to the US were they belong.
@@goofyahhuncleproductions8855 Emilio Aguinaldo said the Yanks lied to him and exposed them by writing a book "True version of the Philippine revolution". At the end of his live, in an interview with ABC spanish newspaper he said he loved Spain and regrets trusting the northamericans. It's truly heartbreaking going through the memoir recounts of Aguinaldo, seeing how he held all the optimism in the Americans until the very end, despite all the "red flags" presented at him. He trusted and believed in the honor of those generals, admiral and mayor... It was too late when he found out the true nature of the Americans. Hispanist historian Marcelo Gullo says that "the origin of poor politics is false history" so, don't give up on the cause of digging in history, a clear definition of the enemies is most needed in order to guide correct politics and progressive steps.
Los últimos españoles de Filipinas sabiendo que morirían solos, deciden aprovechar los pocos minutos de sus vidas para disfrutarla. Cómo no supe de esa historia
Hmmmmm interesting
Kinda feels like that movie i watched. 1898 our last men in the philippines.
Ive never heard of this before.. interesting
Fun fact the song in English is translated to the last of the Philippines
Viva fililipinas! 🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭
Battle of Baler is one of example that Spain could still beat the revolution if it have enough men with high morale.
Not really, by the time that the siege of baler happened the Spanish have already lost,
The katiupuneros who fought on baler are just locals, not the main katipunan force,
The Katipunan that time are at the dawn of Phil-Am war, so they couldn't really send forces to baler
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spanish boys last jamming before the filipino revolutionary bombarded the church
I'm from baler and nung isang araw dito samin pinag diwang namin yung araw ng paglaya nung june 30
yes be proud that we have kicked them from our country.
Nice song
Gracias Amigo.
Good video v ':
spanish bois singing:
fiilipinos: FUEGO
"spanish inside the church" KABOOM!!!!!!
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if the filipino back in the day have a knowledge about besiege they all probably dead because most filipino at that time was not really highly train especially on besieging.
Que cojones tuvimos, que pena damos ahora