![]() Colonel Francisco Guerrero and the FACGF's 2nd Infantry Regiment was put in charge of Japanese resistance in Bacoor. This group would eventually become the Filipino-American Cavite Guerrilla Forces (FACGF). ![]() From May 7, 1942, to August 15, 1945, many Caviteños joined the Cavite Guerrilla Unit (CGU), a recognized guerrilla group headed by Colonel Mariano Castañeda. Japanese occupation era ĭuring World War II, in 1942, Japanese occupation forces entered Bacoor and other towns of Cavite province. Bacoor was reconstituted as an independent municipality on Octoby virtue of Act No. 947, merging Bacoor and Perez-Dasmariñas with Imus. On October 15, 1903, the Philippine Commission enacted Act No. Zapote Bridge's special place in Philippine history is depicted today in Bacoor's city seal. An American force of 1,200 men supported by naval gunfire from the American squadron in Manila Bay crushed a 5,000-strong Filipino force led by General Pío del Pilar. The Zapote Bridge became the site once again of another battle on June 13, 1899, this time between Philippine and American troops. With the Philippine declaration of independence from Spain on June 12, 1898, hostilities reignited in Cavite and Bacoor was designated as the first capital of Emilio Aguinaldo's revolutionary government until it was transferred to Malolos, Bulacan in August 1898, a month before the convening of the Malolos Congress. See also: Battle of Zapote River Zapote Bridge in 1899, site of the historic battle in 1897 which killed Gen. However, after the Spanish counteroffensive in May 1897, Bacoor and the rest of Cavite finally fell to the Spaniards, forcing Aguinaldo and his men to retreat to Biak-na-Bato. Despite the Filipino victory, they lost the brilliant Evangelista who was killed in action. They also blew up the Zapote Bridge with explosives which killed several Spaniards crossing it and thereby preventing them from reaching Cavite and forcing them to retreat to Muntinlupa. The Katipuneros reinforced the southern bank of the river with trenches designed by Filipino engineer Edilberto Evangelista.Įdilberto Evangelista was known as the "Engineer of the revolution" and the "Hero of the revolution". On February 17, 1897, General Emilio Aguinaldo's 40,000-strong force confronted a 20,000-strong Spanish reinforcement at the Zapote River. A Katipunan chapter, codenamed Gargano, led by Gil Ignacio from barrio Banalo, started the hostilities in Bacoor on September 2, 1896, three days after the revolution began. The death of the GOMBURZA served as the inspiration for Jose Rizal's El Filibusterismo, which in turn influenced the ignition of the Philippine Revolution.īahay na bato (Cuenca Ancestral House) served as the headquarters of the Philippine revolutionary government in 1898.ĭuring the Philippine Revolution against Spain in 1896, Bacoor was one of the first towns in Cavite to rise up. He and the rest of GOMBURZA were executed at Bagumbayan in 1872. Mariano Gómez, was one of the GOMBURZA trio implicated in the mutiny for advocating the secularization of priesthood in the Philippines. Bacoor was one of the flashpoints of the Cavite Mutiny of 1872.
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