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- Title:
- April 27, 1565
- Description:
- On that date the 5-ship fleet of 63-year-old Miguel Lopez de Legaspi defeated the fighters of 67-year-old Rajah Tupás, thereby conquering Cebu. 44 years earlier to the day, Lapulapu had won the Battle of Mactan fatally wounding Magellan. Legaspi’s men discharged firearms causing natives to run. Houses caught fire and with them “much food, which, in short, was the greatest loss, for there was great need of it,” Juan Medina writes. The invaders were hungry, as had been the case with the Magellan crew when Tupás (likely around 23 years old) had already been designated heir to his uncle, Rajah Humabon then Cebu’s leader. Cebu’s food stability was constantly threatened because of its terroir. The quest for food to feed the foreigners would push the Spanish into Panay and other islands. Medina called Panay the “granary of all the islands of [the] archipelago.
- Subjects:
- Miguel Lopez de Legaspi Rajah Tupás Cebu Panay Food supply
- Exhibition:
- Juan Medina 50
- Source:
- Portrait of Legaspi engraved by Celesti Sadurni i Deop (1849-1896) Public Domain.
- Type:
- Image;Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "April 27, 1565", Philippine Food History, Felice P. Sta. Maria
- Reference Link:
- felicepstamaria.net/items/coll101.html