The Spaniards Capitulate at Baler

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On June 2, 1899, less than two months after Lieutenant Gillmore and his fellow sailors began their captivity as prisoners of war, the Spaniards under siege at Baler capitulated to the Filipino revolutionary force that had surrounded the church where they had taken refuge for eleven long months. The emaciated men were marched to Manila and repatriated to Spain, where they were lauded as heroes, the last holdouts for Spanish empire.