Teresa Magbanua

Teresa Magbanua y Ferraris, better known as Teresa Magbanua and dubbed as the "Visayan Joan of Arc", was a Filipino schoolteacher and military leader. Born in Pototan, Iloilo, Philippines, she retired from education and became a housewife shortly after her marriage to Alejandro Balderas, a wealthy landowner from Sara, Iloilo. When the 1896 Philippine Revolution against Spain broke out, she became one of only a few women to join the Panay-based Visayan arm of the Katipunan, the initially secret revolutionary society headed by Andrés Bonifacio.

Si Teresa Magbanua ay ang unang babaeng mandirigma sa Panay at tanyag bilang "Joan of Arc of the Visayas." Sya ay guro at pinuno ng militar. Ang natatanging babaeng heneral tulad ni Reyna Sima, Prinsesa Urduja at Gabriela Silang ay pinatunayan na ang mga babae ay may angking tibay ng puso at katapangan at handang maghandog man ng buhay kung kinakailangan.

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