USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Battle of Mactan was a fierce clash fought in the Philippines on 27 April 1521. The warriors of Lapulapu, one of the Datus of Mactan, overpowered and defeated a Spanish force fighting for Rajah Humabon of Cebu under the command of Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan, who was killed in the battle.

Detailed explanation-2: -On April 27, 1521, Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan was killed by a poison arrow during a skirmish on the island of Mactan in what is now the Philippines. Magellan and his crew were assisting a local king they had allied with when they landed on the island of Cebu weeks earlier.

Detailed explanation-3: -“When they saw their houses burning, they were roused to greater fury, ” described Pigafetta. “Two of our men were killed near the houses, while we burned twenty or thirty houses. So many of them charged down upon us that they shot the captain through the right leg with a poisoned arrow.”

Detailed explanation-4: -Lapu-Lapu is widely known as a hero who opposed colonization by vanquishing Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan in the Battle of Mactan on April 27, 1521. Magellan, who sailed both Portugal (1505–13) and Spain (1519–21), arrived on the islands in 1521, stumbling on Samar (previously know as Homonhon Island).