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Lapulapu
Lapulapu was a chief of Mactan, an island off Cebu in the central Philippines, who refused to submit to Spain. On 27 April 1521 his warriors defeated a Spanish landing party at the Battle of Mactan and killed Ferdinand Magellan. He is honoured in the Philippines as the first native leader to resist European colonisation, and a city on Mactan bears his name.
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