Battle of Tayabas
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changes Filipino revolutionaries liberated Tayabas province
| Siege of Tayabas | |||||||||
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| Part of the Philippine Revolution | |||||||||
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 Filipino Revolutionaries |
 Spanish Empire | ||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
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Joaquin Pacheco Yanguas | ||||||||
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443 | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
| 1,600[3] | 27[4] | ||||||||
The Siege of Tayabas (Filipino: Pagkubkob sa Tayabas, Spanish: Sitio de Tayabas) was a 2-month campaign of the Philippine Revolution that saw intense guerrilla warfare and bloodshed for the province. The battle occurred shortly after Aguinaldo's return from Hong Kong in May of the same year. Tayabas was just one of the many triumphs for the revolutionaries in that year, which led towards Philippine independence.
On 14 December 1897, Emilio Aguinaldo and Gov. Gen. Primo de Rivera signed the Pact of Biak-na-Bato ending the first phase of the Philippine Revolution. However, many generals of the revolution, like Paciano Rizal and Miguel Malvar, rejected the pact and continued the fight against Spain. Malvar took command of the disoriented and disillusioned forces of the southern provinces of Batangas, Tayabas and Laguna together with Rizal, but in the end, he rounded up his followers and left for Hong Kong together with other key revolutionaries.
In mid-May 1898, Aguinaldo returned and defeated the Spaniards at Alapan while Malvar came shortly after. Gathering once again an army from Batangas, Aguinaldo appointed him as a division general and tasked him to liberate the province of Tayabas and Batangas from the remaining Spaniards in the region.