Posted on 03/18/2021 12:29:24 PM PDT by Borges
MANILA — President Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday urged Filipinos to learn from history and "never again allow any other tribe to compromise our sovereignty," as he marked the 500th anniversary of the landing of the Spanish expedition in the Philippines.
Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan and his crew landed in the Philippines on March 16, 1521, in the first circumnavigation of the world. He died on the shores of Mactan, Cebu, in a battle with chieftain Lapu-Lapu, which Duterte called "an exemplary display of firm leadership and extraordinary courage defeated and drove away the colonials."
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He’s pulling a Liz Cheney. I do believe Marcos has a son but then Ferdinand was thrown out on his ear.
This guy’s popularity really spiked early when he gave the populace permission to take out the drug dealers. many openly quit the business. A 6 year term gave him too much time to turn on us like he’ll deal better with the Chicoms.
Duterte is right, why should an independent nation allow itself to be bullied by others?
Just think 500 years ago with nothing more than dead reckoning circumnavigating the globe
What is fascinating is that while DNA shows that a majority of Philippine folks today do retain the biological genes of ancestors who were part of the Philippines long before the Spanish, the culture shows cultural DNA that, enthusiastically, has endorsed and adopted influences of the west through the long (300 year) occupation by Spain/Mexico, and the brief period of American. Slamming Magellan and others my have its political benefits, but if doing so was really honest it would have the guts to suggest the culture revert to the culture Magellan found, in every sense of the word.
And as far as defeating the Spanish before the Americans arrived, or defeating the later American occupation quickly, there was as much native rivalry among tribes and political groups, that kept Philippinos from achieving that, as there were many other reasons. Even now. Philippine leaders seem to be roundly criticized across Philippine society but their opponents tend to seldom agree on much other than just opposing the leader. It is no wonder that strong figures usually drift to the top in that environment.
Europeans “discovering” lands where people have lived thousands of years before European countries existed - then they go out and discover these lands and take them.
“defeated and drove away the colonials”
Lololol. Like the Spanish Galleons didn’t come back the next year, and the year after, and the year after...
Well, they had a little more than dead reckoning. They had compasses, and they had sextants, and a decent knowledge of astronomy. They could determine their latitude, directions, and speed just fine, but longitude was the thing they were basically depending on the Captain/Navigator’s “horse sense” to guess at.
A name so good, you can say it twice.
What are you talking about? Conquest was the norm all over the world up until very recently in history.
Just think 500 years ago with nothing more than dead reckoning circumnavigating the globe
The Spanish came back about 50 years later.
Search Sto. Nino Miracle.
An earthquake, fluke of nature, and a carving of the bambino that was undamaged in the ruins, convinced the Filipinos to submit to 400 years of Catholic pederasty and slavery to Spain.
Apparently the earthquake legend works better for church recruiting, but it was actually Spanish cannonfire.
the interesting thing I’ve leaned about the phillipines in recent years is that fleets of spanish ships sailed from Mexico loaded with silver to trade with the Chinese who also established trading posts in the phillipines. The trade went on for two hundred years until the silver ran out about 1750.
That same silver fueled the wealth of europe for 200 years from 1550 to 1750.
Considering it was 500 years ago when very few navigational tools existed sailing in that was little more than hope and prayer
Yep, the “Manila galleons”, they were pretty much the first global trade route.
The CCP has already occupied the disputed islands the Philippines claims as its own in the western Philippine sea.
What’s Duterte going to do about it?
They had a few tricks that they used though. They knew about the trade winds, for example, and they knew that even if they couldn’t spot land, if they could spot clouds, or spot birds, then there would be land in that direction. Still, it must have taken a lot of courage to be part of those first generations of sailors who took the risk of sailing the open ocean, out of sight of land, and never knowing if you could get back.
“Fire when ready, Gridly.”
I always wondered where this saying originated. Recently looked it up. It was a command given to Gridly to fire on Spanish ships in Subic Bay.
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