HEROES OF ZAMBALES

 Tumulang - pinuno ng mga katutubong Zambal na lumaban sa mga Espanyol

noong taong 1660 (Rebolusyong Sambal)

 Quirauat - pinuno ng mga rebeldeng Sambal na hinatulan ng kamatayan sa Fort

Playa Honda. “Let him who wishes to descend and settle do it, but as
for me, I am going to live with my people as I wish” –Quirauat

 Hilario Logum, Mariano Medina, Isidro Lesaca, Gaudencio Mendigorin, Esteban

Mendigorin - Katipunerong Zambal na nanguna sa pag-atake sa kuta ng mga
Espanyol sa Subic noong 1896. Ang nasabing pag-atake ang simula ng rebelyon sa
pangunguna ng Katipunan sa Zambales

 Captain Conrado Yap - Commanding officer, Tank Company of the 19 th

Battalion Combat Team, Philippine Expeditionary Forces to Korea (PEFTOK). Namuno ng
pag-atake laban sa pwersa ng North Korea noong ika- 21 ng Abril 1951. Napatay sa Labanan
sa Yultong habang inililigtas ang mga kasamahang biktima ng labanan noong ika-23 ng Abril
1951.

 Captain Evaristo Escusa - beterano ng Ikalawang Digmaang Pandaigdig,

nakilahok sa Death March at napabilang sa mga prisoners of war sa Capas concentration
camp. Naglingkod bilang sundalo sa Mindanao, siya ay nahalal bilang Punong Bayan ng Iba.

 Ramon F. Magsaysay - Guerilla leader, Military Governor of Zambales,

Congressman, Lone District of Zambales, Secretary of National Defense (Quirino
administration), President of the Republic (1953-1957)

Source:
Zambales. Ramon de Jesus. Makati City: Union Zambalena, 1989
Teodoro Pansacula and Doroteo Pansacula
 Katipunan members based in Yba. The Pansacula brothers advocated the common
ownership of property (comunidad de bienes) and the distribution of these properties of
the rich among the poor. Among the Pansaculas’ faithful followers were Pedro Gonzalez,
Cornelio Sanchez, Benito Alejo, Gaspar Jualo, Genaro Ramirez, Apolinario Tan-Lapco, and
Anastacio Rivera. They attacked Spanish garrisons in Botolan and River de San Fernando
(Poonbato). The national government, on the other hand, tried to dissuade natives from
joining their ranks. A decree emphasized the seizure of the of the personal properties of any
Katipunero. Neither could Katipuneros transfer properties for these would be considered
invalid in any transaction. The decree of October 5,1896 stated that traitors will be shot and
treason covered the following offenses: destroying and obstructing roads, railroads, and
telegraph lines; blocking bridges, streams, and river tributaries; giving munitions of war to
KKK; and securing desertion among government troops so that they would defect to the
Katipunero side.

The Katipuneros endured many hardships. There was a time when they did not even have
decent clothes to wear so that the men under the command of First Lieutenant Don Moises
Abueg were forced to take shirts from the store of a Chinese in Cabangan. One of the
Pansaculas came to their aid and gave them enough money to pay for the goods they took.
Afterwards, the Pansaculas prepared them for an audience with General Aguinaldo.

On March 7, 1897, the Zambal Katipuneros seized the cable station in Bolinao and
controlled the telegraphic line connecting the town to Manila. Others attacked Balincaguin
and dislodged Spaniards from their positions while those in Anda imprisoned the friar
curate. The Spaniards believed that these were arraned by Francisco Makabulos and Isidoro
Torres. Fifty-nine Spaniards and six friars were killed. Some of the lesser flanks of the
sandatahanes (bolo men) were annihilated, thereby causing casulaties on both sides.

The province was freed from Spanish domination on June 25,1898. The Spaniards were
cornered while they were marching from Mt. Anaongen in San Antonio to Subic. It was
agreed upon that after the surrender, the Spanish soldiers could still carry their rifles as far
as Subic to show the people that everything was done in honourable manner. At this point
Teodoro and Doroteo Pansacula went to the towns declaring themselves governor of the
province and brigadier general, respectively. Teodoro Pansacula asked the people for
money and rice to support their troops. In Yba, the Revolutionary Commissioners, Don Jose
Leiba and Don Ramon Berbaldo, received P 2,523 in checks and silver from the brothers and
from from Don Sebastian Mercado, the local president.

On October 8,1898, Colonel Wenceslao Viniegra was appointed Military Commander of

Zambales. The tide then turned against the Pansaculas for it was Col. Viniegra who
furnished Aguinaldo with a report castigating and denouncing the brothers and their
followers. It was “inadvisable” for them to stay. Rich families from Yba and Botolan
denounced their “gang” as “bandits” who went around with their rifles and bolos victimizing
those who refused to accede to their demands. The Pansaculas believed that “it was already
time for the rich to be poor and the poor to become rich….and that the ignorant should
direct the towns and the intelligent to be subordinate to them.” Furthermore, they were
accused of persuading soldiers to abandon their posts in Yba and Botolan and defect to their
side. Viniegra then tried to assure Aguinaldo that he would try his best to maintain public
order.
Up to the present time there are many unresolved questions regarding to the accusations of
Viniegra to the Pansacula brothers, reported to General Aguinaldo. Before Aguinaldo was
furnished with the report, it seemed that his government accepted the Pansaculas. It was
said that one day the brothers just left and were never seen again. In 1898, the provincial
government fell under the leadership of Don Vicente Marino Camara and other atagay a
tawo (landed families) followed his lead.

Sources:

Alma N. Bamero, “Patterns of Resistance in Zambales:1660-1898”, Centennial Papers on the

Katipunan and the Revolution, 1998. pp.102-106

Milagros Guerrero,”The Provincial and Municipal Elites of Luzon During the Revolution,1898-
1902”, in McCoy and de Jesus, p. 156