The sheer number of Lapulapu's forces, compounded with issues associated with the location and the armor, ultimately resulted in a disastrous defeat for the Europeans and the death of Magellan. Surviving members of Magellan's crew continued the expedition under the command of Juan Sebastian de Elcano , who completed the journey in September 1522.

2023年7月20日 · As Bergreen notes, Magellan assumed that his superior technology—muskets and armor—would overcome the indigenous people armed with wooden spears. That proved to be a fatal miscalculation.

The Magellan expedition, sometimes termed the Magellan–Elcano expedition, was a 16th-century Spanish expedition planned and led by Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan. One of the most important voyages in the Age of Discovery, its purpose was to secure a maritime trade route with the Moluccas, or Spice Islands, in present-day Indonesia.

2024年11月29日 · Magellan and Espinosa made a quick survey of their new surroundings with their practiced soldiers’ eyes. They set up gunners and archers at the most favorable positions: inside or under the houses on stilts, behind fences and in sandy hollows, anyplace where they could take a shot at the enemy without exposing themselves unduly.

armor (Tobler 2004, 195). 4 Magellan attempted to ease the pressure on his small force by sending two men to burn the houses of Mactan, which, however, did not distract or demoralize the local warriors. After enduring the barrage for some time, Magellan was finally hit in the leg by a poisoned arrow. Pigafetta did not make it clear why Magellan

2021年4月28日 · Rene Escalante, a former chair of the Department of History of De La Salle University, said it is unlikely for Filipinos at that time to return Magellan's body

Magellan led 60 men from Cebu to conquer the island of Mactan in 1521. Although the Spaniards had superior armor and weapons, they underestimated the bravery of Lapu-Lapu and his warriors. In the ensuing battle, Magellan and several of his men were killed, marking one of the earliest major defeats of European powers in the Philippines.

2009年10月17日 · The Battle of Mactan on April 27, 1521, when Lapu-Lapu and his men killed Ferdinand Magellan was looked upon by many enthusiasts of the Filipino martial arts (FMA) as a landmark where native fighting skills triumphed over Occidental method of warfare.

Lapu Lapu refused to give up Magellan’s body or the bodies of the seven other expedition mariners killed in the battle. These downed fighters were wearing armor, and contemporary burial practices at the time as noted by archeologists here show the deceased being buried with worldly possession and keepsakes.

Magellan took care to let the swarthy monarch know that he had two hundred men who, thus clad in armor, could fight without being harmed by any enemy's weapons. Resolved to show the king still further evidence of the powers of the Europeans in battle, he commanded two of his soldiers to engage in a mock combat in fencing.