Lapu-Lapu/Bio & Battles

"Lapu-Lapu also stood up to a heavily armored Spanish army, led by their Portuguese captain, Ferdinand Magellan, on the morning of April 27, 1521.""

- Vincent Pauletti Lapu-Lapu was a ruler of Mactan and Visayas. The Phillipines regard him as as the first Filipino hero because he was the native to resist Spanish colonization. through his victory over the explorer Ferdinand Magellan. Monuments of Lapu Lapu have been built in Manilla and Cebu while the Philippine National Police and the Bureau of Fire Protection use his image in his honor.

He is best known for the Battle of Mactan, which happened at dawn on April 27, 1521. The battle halted the Magellan expedition and delayed the Spanish occupation of the islands by over forty years until the expedition of Miguel Lopez de Legazpi in 1564.

Besides being a rival of Rajah Humabon of Cebu, little is known about the life of Lapu Lapu and the only existing documents about his life are those written by Antonio Pigafetta.