WERE AGUSTIN JILOCA AND JULIAN CONFESOR HANGED BY THE AMERICANS BECAUSE CABATUANANONS WOULD NOT TELL OF THE WHEREABOUTS OF GENERAL MARTIN DELGADO?
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1. On Page 80 of the Proceedings of the 1st Conference on West Visayan History and Culture, published by the University of the Philippines in the Visayas, Center for West Visayan Studies:

"In Cabatuan, because the natives would not tell the Americans of the whereabouts of Gen. Delgado, two of its prominent citizens were hanged to death - Julian Confesor (father of Sen. Tomas Confesor) and Agustin Jiloca."



2. Were the two Cabatuananons, Cabatuan Presidente Agustin Jiloca and Cabatuan Vice Presidente Julian Confesor (father of Sen. Tomas Confesor), in 1901 during the Phil-Am War, really hanged by the Americans because the natives would not tell of the whereabouts of Gen. Martin Delgado?

The answer to that is, NO!

You see, when Julian Confesor and Agustin Jiloca were hanged on July 5, 1901, General Martin Delgado had already surrendered 6 months earlier, having initially surrendered on January 11, 1901 and formally surrendered on February 2, 1901.

So any hanging of Julian Confesor and Agustin Jiloca on July 5, 1901 due to the natives not telling the Americans the whereabouts of Gen. Martin Delgado was moot and academic, because the Americans were not looking for Martin Delgado anymore.





In fact, General Martin Delgado was already the governor of Iloilo by the time of the hanging, having been appointed by the Americans as Governor of Iloilo on April 11, 1901, together with Jovito Yusay as Iloilo Provincial Secretary.

Jovito Yusay was the Presidente of the Estado Federal de Bisayas in Cabatuan, from the time the Estado Federal was transfered to Cabatuan after the American landing of February 11, 1899, up to the time Gen. Martin Delgado mounted a coup d'etat against the Estado Federal de Bisayas sometime in September 1899. After the coup d'etat, Martin Delgado retained Cabatuan, where he resides, as the revolutionary capital until the American Cabatuan Offensive of November 1899 pushed the revolutionaries to the mountains.



3. Cabatuan Presidente Agustin Jiloca and Vice Presidente Julian Confesor were hanged instead because of the killing of Pvt. George Hill the previous year, and because after swearing the oath of allegiance to the Americans, they connived with the revolutionaries in conducting an attack on Cabatuan on December 15, 1900, setting fire to the town.


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