On November 11, 1858, Martin Teofilo Delgado , revolutionary general in the Visayas and Mindanao, was born in Santa Barbara, Iloilo, the second child of a rich and aristocratic Spanish mestizo family. He finished his early schooling at Santa Barbara Parochial School. Later, he enrolled at the Seminario de San Vicente Ferrer in Jaro. He later went on to he enroll at the Ateneo Municipal in Manila and obtained his diploma as a school teacher. After finishing his studies in Manila. He returned to his hometown and taught in a public school for some time. At the age of 25, he was chosen teniente mayor , later made capital municipal and juez de paz , which positions he held with distinction. Shortly after Commodore George Dewey had smashed the Spanish fleet at Manila Bay on May 1, 1898 and blockaded the capital, the hard-pressed Spanish colonial government organized Filipino volunteer militia in the different regions of the Philippines. General Ricardo Monet...