86 Facts About Manuel Tinio

Manuel Tinio is considered to be one of the three "Fathers of the Cry of Nueva Ecija", along with Pantaleon Valmonte and Mariano Llanera.

The Manuel Tinio family, according to contemporary sources, was the most prominent and wealthiest family in the province of Nueva Ecija.

Manuel Tinio was born to Silveria on June 17,1877, in Licab, a barrio of Aliaga that became an independent municipality in 1890.

Manuel Tinio was the only son and had two sisters, the eldest, Maximiana, married Valentin de Castro of Licab and Catalina, the youngest, married Clemente Gatchalian Hernandez of Malolos, Bulacan.

Manuel Tinio was his mother's favorite, his father having died when Manuel Tinio was twelve.

The young Manuel Tinio learned his caton, the phonetic ABCs, under an unknown tutor in Licab.

Manuel Tinio continued his studies in Manila in the school run by Don V Crisologo.

The aggressive exploits of the teen-aged Manuel Tinio reached the ears of General Emilio Aguinaldo, whose forces were being driven out of Cavite and Laguna, Philippines.

Manuel Tinio evacuated to Mount Puray in Montalban, Rizal and called for an assembly of patriots in June 1897.

Manuel Tinio was commissioned a Colonel and served under Gen.

Manuel Tinio conducted raids in Carmen, Zaragoza and Penaranda, Nueva Ecija.

Manuel Tinio brought the corpse back to the general's grieving wife in Biac-na-Bato.

Manuel Tinio was commissioned Brigadier General and designated as commanding general of operations on Nov 20,1897.

Manuel Tinio then took the steamer to San Isidro, Nueva Ecija.

Casimiro Manuel Tinio, composed of Captains Feliciano Ramoso and Pascual Manuel Tinio, Lt.

Manuel Tinio ordered the assault of the convent from the adjoining church.

Manuel Tinio to reconnoiter and clear the neighboring commandancia or military district of Benguet, had met no opposition for the small force of cazadores in La Trinidad had fled to Bontoc upon learning of their approach.

Manuel Tinio stormed their positions, causing the enemy to withdraw to Tagudin, the first town of Ilocos Sur.

Manuel Tinio entered Vigan, the capital of Ilocos Sur and the citadel of Spanish power in the North.

Manuel Tinio had immediately launched a two-pronged movement to capture the Spaniards fleeing northward and those escaping into the interior.

Manuel Tinio dispatched his brother, Casimiro, with a light cavalry column of 600 men to Ilocos Norte to pursue the fleeing enemy.

Manuel Tinio afforded prisoners and did not put up much of a fight.

Manuel Tinio is credited with capturing the most number of Spanish prisoners during the revolution, over 1.000 of them.

Manuel Tinio exercised both firmness and compassion in dealing with the prisoners.

Manuel Tinio set up his command headquarters in the Bishop's Palace in Vigan.

The successful military exploits of the Brigada Manuel Tinio were heralded all over Luzon and attracted hundreds of volunteers.

Manuel Tinio divided this territory into 3 zones, each under a military commander who commanded a regiment, as follows:.

Manuel Tinio received his appointment as Military Governor of the Ilocos provinces and Commanding General of all Filipino forces in Northern Luzon.

Manuel Tinio's army was formally integrated as an armed unit of the Republic.

Manuel Tinio marshalled his troops, all well equipped and completely in uniform.

Manuel Tinio assembled them in the town's main Plaza and made them swear to defend the new Republic with their lives.

The next month, on Nov 11,1898 Manuel Tinio was appointed Brigadier General of Infantry.

Manuel Tinio adhered to his principles of discipline among his troops, even imprisoning Col.

Manuel Tinio ordered the construction of 636 trenches, well designed and strategically placed for cross fire, to protect the principal roads and ports and to guard the entire coastline from Rosario, La Union to Cape Bojeador in Ilocos Norte.

Manuel Tinio's forces were 1,904 strong, with 68 officers, 200 sandatahanes or bolomen, 284 armorers, 37 medics, 22 telegraphers, 80 cavalrymen, 105 artillerymen and 2 Spanish engineers.

Manuel Tinio never failed to obey the orders of his superior and never made a comment on the deaths of Bonifacio or Luna.

Manuel Tinio, seeing the handwriting on the wall, began taking private English lessons from David Arnold, an American captive who had come over to the Filipino side.

Fortunately, the encounters with the Manuel Tinio Brigade had delayed the American pincer movements and, by the time these closed, Aguinaldo was already far in the north.

Simeon Villa to San Fernando, La Union, where most of Manuel Tinio's troops were helping the townspeople with the rice harvest.

Manuel Tinio then set up his command headquarters in San Quintin, Abra and sent the wounded further ahead to the military hospital in Bangued.

Manuel Tinio sent orders for all active soldiers of the brigade to concentrate along the shores of the Abra River towns of San Quintin, Piddigan and Bangued, beyond the Tangadan Pass.

From San Quentin, General Manuel Tinio ordered 400 riflemen and bolomen, led by Capt.

Manuel Tinio sent cavalry north from Vigan, destroying trenches and defense works around Magsingal, Sinait, Cabugao and Badoc.

Manuel Tinio even went so far as to invite them to his house in Bangued for dinner.

Manuel Tinio realized that the Americans were exerting all efforts to surround him, he had the American prisoners conducted to Cabugaoan in Apayao country as a diversion, spreading false rumors that he was with the group.

Manuel Tinio spent the next couple of months in the mountains of Solsona, where he began fortifying the peak of Mt.

Manuel Tinio were similar to those that he had put up in Tangadan the year before, but, having learned his lesson, he situated the defenses on a peak that Lt.

Manuel Tinio engaged in a skirmish with American forces at Malabita, San Fernando, La Union.

Manuel Tinio to execute all Filipinos who surrender to the enemy.

Manuel Tinio's command was probably the first to initiate guerrilla activities in Luzon in accordance with the Aguinaldo's official proclamation at Bayambang on November 12,1899.

James Lyons, a prisoner in Manuel Tinio's camp, reported that "runners came in every few minutes" with information.

Manuel Tinio then went north to Magsingal, but left the next day on an inspection trip.

Manuel Tinio issued a proclamation on March 20,1900, as follows:.

Pasuquin, a town in Ilocos Norte, refused to cooperate with Filipino forces, so Manuel Tinio threatened to burn the town "at his leisure" and did so on Nov 3,1900.

Manuel Tinio attacked the Americans fortified in the convent of Sta.

On March 25,1901, the top brass of the Manuel Tinio Brigade met in a council of war at Sagap, Bangued.

Manuel Tinio lived in a camarin or barn together with all the farming paraphernalia and livestock.

Manuel Tinio treated all his nephews and nieces as if they were his children, giving them the same education and privileges.

Manuel Tinio was very loving and fatherly and would entertain his children with stories of his campaigns.

Manuel Tinio treated everyone equally, rich and poor alike, so everyone looked up to him and respected him.

All his tenants idolized Manuel Tinio, who was not an absentee landlord, but lived with them in the farm with hardly any amenities.

Manuel Tinio enjoyed his brandy, finishing off daily a bottle of Tres Cepes by Domecq.

Manuel Tinio did not run for any position, but any candidate he endorsed was sure to win the position.

Manuel Tinio had saved him from a Spanish firing squad in 1896.

Manuel Tinio always supported Sergio Osmena, the leader of the party, throughout his political career.

Should the incumbent seek re-election, Manuel Tinio advised his colleagues to support the choice of the convention.

Manuel Tinio used to be a celebrated insurecto General and Governor Smith has just made him Governor.

General Manuel Tinio informed me that he had most of the band in jail already, his guns captured, and the robberies stopped, and the principal outstanding ladron driven from his borders and over to Pangasinan.

Manuel Tinio's bravery has him negotiating with a dreaded tulisan or bandit who held a family hostage for days, threatening to kill them if the constables, policemen, tried to rush him.

Unarmed, Manuel Tinio went into the house, talked to the bandit and went out after 30 minutes with the bandit peacefully in tow.

Manuel Tinio ran for reelection under the Nacionalista Party in 1908 and won.

Manuel Tinio eventually became a close friend of the aristocratic Forbes, whom he invited to hunting parties in Pantabangan.

Manuel Tinio's term was characterized by increased Filipinization of the insular bureaucracy, and he appointed Tinio as the first Filipino Director of Lands on October 17,1913.

The intrigues came to the point that Manuel Tinio was even accused of manipulating the sale of the 6,000 hectare Sabani Estate that was rescinded.

Manuel Tinio then married Basilia Pilares Huerta, a Bulakena from Meycauayan.

Manuel Tinio entertained and kept open house, which meant that anyone present at lunchtime was automatically invited to dine.

Manuel Tinio dedicated the remainder of his life to politics.

The hold that Manuel Tinio had on the province was awesome.

Manuel Tinio would sit where everyone who passed by the house could see him.

Manuel Tinio was a very good friend of Manuel Quezon and Sergio Osmena, the Speaker of the National Assembly and the most powerful Filipino in the political scene at that time.

Manuel Tinio was a pioneering businessman aside from being an hacendero.

Manuel Tinio founded in 1911, one of the first soft drink companies in the country.

Manuel Tinio established one of the first and biggest ricemills in Cabanatuan.

Manuel Tinio established a cattle ranch in the foothills of Pantabangan.

On December 28,1923, Manuel Tinio was confined in a Manila hospital for cirrhosis of the liver.

Manuel Tinio was finally buried in Cabanatuan on March 2,1924.