Fort Guintabuan - Stronghold of Iloilo & Negros Brave warriors against the Americans (Enrique B. Magalona)

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Two tributaries runs around the fort to form a massive water source for Malugo river and funneled to other rivers in Silay-Saravia valleys.
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Coordinates:   10°44'19"N   123°10'59"E

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  • During the Japanese occupation, Guerillas used to sing the following song to keep their moral and the melody is still reverberating even to this days in the lonely mountainside around this area: ( tune " With wine and music" "From up the mountain we view the lowland Those lovely rolling plains that God has given us Those lovely staring our eyes are aching Wishing and waiting for this dark days to pass We are not bandits we are not brigands We are just men desirous to be free Although we suffer and though we perish Sweeter to us is death than slavery.... If the hills could tell the story They would speak of our provisions How we struggle with starvations On this lonely night and day... ...there's more...well, that's it for now!!!
  • "Subject Fort Guintabu-an:-I think this is the last part of the song" With a scanty arms and weapons We defied a haunty nippons We will be grown for sickness for everything to us denied Yet we laugh at all this hardship We all sing away our troubles For we must fight and fight for liberty For we've decided and we're united To fight for freedom On our way of life
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