1. Edilberto Evangelista was a Filipino civil engineer and a revolutionary.
14 Facts About Edilberto Evangelista
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Edilberto Evangelista was awarded a medal of excellence in Mathematics.
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Edilberto Evangelista therefore enrolled at the University of Ghent, one of the world's top engineering schools, and finished civil engineering and architecture with highest honors.
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Edilberto Evangelista then received profitable offers of employment from several institutions in Europe but he declined because of his zeal to serve his country.
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Edilberto Evangelista returned to the Philippines in September 1896, shortly after the start of the Philippine Revolution.
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Edilberto Evangelista was arrested and imprisoned, since the Spanish authorities suspected many people of the revolution and he had in his possession Jose Rizal's Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo, but he escaped.
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Edilberto Evangelista joined General Emilio Aguinaldo's command on October 22,1896.
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Edilberto Evangelista was elected Lieutenant General in the said meeting, now in the ranks of Artemio Ricarte.
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Edilberto Evangelista planned and built forts and barricades in Bacoor, Binakayan, Cavite Viejo, Munting-ilog, Silang, Dasmarinas, Imus, Salitran, Bayang-Luma, and Noveleta, to serve as protection against Spanish forces.
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Edilberto Evangelista was part of the Magdalo government, serving as assistant overall captain general to Aguinaldo.
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Edilberto Evangelista was calm but fatalistic, a characteristic misinterpreted as bravery.
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Edilberto Evangelista was drawing trenches on the ground with a stick while the enemy fired cannons at their forces.
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Edilberto Evangelista's post was succeeded by his protege, Miguel Malvar.
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Camp Edilberto Evangelista is the largest military camp in Mindanao with an area of 129 hectares.