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In the middle of the Philippine archipelago, one island, oppressed and occupied, has once shown to the country how ingenuity, wild imagination and superb acting skills can redeem the colonized from the colonizers and therefore gain their independence. The year was 1898 and all around the Philippine islands, thousands of militias and revolutionaries had been fighting off the retreating Spaniards. Leading the revolution was General Emilio Aguinaldo who during June of that year declared the Philippines independent from Mother Spain, hurled for the first time the Philippine flag and played the National Hymn. Later that year, the first Philippine