Teresa Magbanua, dubbed the "Visayan Joan of Arc" (October 13, 1868 - August 1947), from Pototan, Iloilo, Philippines, was a schoolteacher and military leader. She retired from education and became a housewife shortly after her marriage to Alejandro Balderas, a wealthy landowner from Sara, Iloilo. When the 1896 Philippine Revolution against the Spanish Empire broke out, she became one of only a few women to join the Panay-based Visayan arm of the Katipunan, the initially secret revolutionary society head by Andrés Bonifacio.
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13 October 1868 Pototan, Iloilo, Philippines
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Died |
1 August 1947 (aged 78)
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Zodiac | Libra |
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