“Magellan“ - Filipino Novelty Song about the 1521 Magellan Expedition and Battle of Mactan

TODAY IN HISTORY, April 27, 1521, Lapu-lapu’s forces defeat a Spanish contingent led by Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan in the Battle of Mactan. The Battle of Mactan (Cebuano: Gubat sa Mactan; Filipino: Labanan sa Mactan) was a fierce clash fought in the Philippines on 27 April 1521. The warriors of Lapulapu, one of the Datus of Mactan, overpowered and defeated a Spanish force fighting for Rajah Humabon of Cebu under the command of Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan, who was killed in battle. The outcome of the battle resulted in the departure of the Spanish crew from the archipelago, and delayed the Spanish colonization of the Philippines by 44 years until the conquest by Miguel López de Legazpi in 1564–1565. Today, Lapulapu is retroactively honored as the first “Philippine national hero“ to resist foreign rule, even though the territory of the “Philippine Islands“ did not exist at the time, nor was it even named or imagined that way. Lapulapu is r