approached a number of professional historians who gave either leads while acknowledging their relative unfamiliarity with Agueda Kahabagan, or who did not respond at all.
Whatever scant evidence exists also gives conflicting accounts of a single event, leaving one foot in the door of fact, and the other in the realm of legend.Teresa Magbanua was a revolutionary from Iloilo. As a girl, she got into fights with the village boys. Her hobbies forced her parents to send her to women’s schools in Manila for grooming “into a fine lady.”
The Philippine-American War began in February 1899. A roster of generals lists a “Sr. Aguese Kahabagan” as a Brigadier General under the Reserve Corps, appointed in Jan. 4, 1899. It is agreed that “her man-like fighting prowess became legendary” as witnesses of the Battle of San Pablo saw Kahabagan “jumping over wide trenches and high fences, outdoing even the men.”1897 was a disastrous year for the revolutionaries. Gains made in the previous year were lost as the Spaniards, under a new governor-general, mounted a counter-offensive. The provinces around Manila were hit hard. Cavite, then the hub of the victorious Katipunan, lost town after town.
As revolutionaries retreated from Cavite towards Laguna, it was around this time that Caviteño Miguel Malvar made contact with Taiño, thus the differing accounts on who appointed Kahabagan to lead troops.
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