Lapu-lapu
Posted by on February 7, 2007
When I was still a schoolboy, my teachers, told me that his name was Lapu-lapu. The man who killed Ferdinand Magellan.
Lapu-Lapu (Kaliph Pulaka) (born 1491, died 1542) was the earliest known indigenous Visayan chieftain, and datu (king) of Mactan in the Philippines. Known as the first native of the archipelago to have resisted Spanish colonization, and Roman Catholic prosylitizing. He is now regarded as the first National hero of the Philippines.
On the morning of April 27, 1521, Lapu-Lapu and the men of Mactan, armed with spears and kampilan, faced Spanish soldiers led by Portuguese captain Ferdinand Magellan. In what would later be known as the Battle of Mactan, Magellan and several of his men were killed.
In his honor, the Cebuano people have erected a statue and church in Mactan Island and also renamed the town of Opon in Cebu to Lapu-Lapu City.
Help please. . .my daughter has an assignment which i honestly don’t know the answer. ” who killed lapu-lapu?”