Mayor Noel E. Rosal led city officials, veterans, business
community, students, Philippine Navy and Army personnel, Philippine National
Police officers and civil society organizations in the significant historical
event.
“This day is the sign of remembering forever the heroism of
the Filipino people who fought for our freedom from the hands of the American
invaders,” Rosal said.
On January 23, 1900, the American forces consisting of three
infantry companies with powerful rifles and canyons landed in shore of Albay
The American troops headed by Brigadier Gen. W.A. Kobbe
found heavy resistance from the Filipino forces that gallantry engaged them in
a bloody fight on San Rafael
Bridge
Further, 12 Filipinos were injured while the American
forces' only casualties were also 12 injured.
Rosal said the fight against the foreign invaders is already
a history but he urged the Legazpenos tofight hand in hand against illegal
drugs, other forms of criminality and the disastrous effects of climate change
“that we are now facing for the safety and tranquility of every individual.”
“We will also continue to fight for high-quality education
of all the students in this city to achieve their meaningful dreams towards
prosperity of every family in the whole community,” he added.
The city chief executive said his administration is always
fighting for sustainable development and progress that resulted in the city
being included now in the map as one of the localities in the entire country
that have done a lot of improvements in infrastructure development, social
services and tourism.
In 2014, the City Government of Legazpi was selected by the
US Agency for International Development as one of the most livable cities in
the entire country.
It was also named by the Department of Interior and Local
Government (DILG) as a “Hall of Famer” in the Galing Pookk Awards under the
DILG’s program for the implementation of Public Private Partnership scheme,
It also garnered the Trail Blazer Award given by the Institute of Solidarity
in Asia for the honest-to-goodness governance
of the city administration.
“All these recognitions given to the City Government of
Legazpi are luminous symbol that the city officials have done an effectively
good governance that Legazpenos can be proud,” Rosal said.
Bicol University (BU) president Fay Lauraya said the Battle
of Legazpi monument was constructed 115 years ago to honor and always remember
the Filipino people who fought with bravery, heroism and nationalism.
Lauraya recalled that on that same day, Col. Amando Arian,
commander of the Filipinos' Sorsogon garrison wired Gen. Vito Belarmino,
commanding general of the Filipino troops, advising that the American troops
had already occupied Sorsogon.
Belarmino immediately alerted the garrison of Legazpi under
the direct command of Pawa as chief of operations and his two assistants, Reyes
of the famous Tiradores de Silang and Pilgone.
The defense of Legazpi consisted of four main trenches
facing the sea from Yawa river to the north to Makabalo river to the south and
some secondary entrenchment called trenchera No. 5, closing the approaches of
the San Rafael Bridge
Remembering history, Lauraya said the independence from the
Spanish Government was supposed to be in 1898; however, there was a collapse of
diplomatic relations between the Filipino people and the Americans, and soon
after, the American troops came over to the country and seized the country from
the hands of the Spaniards.
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