2007-04-14 01:50:12 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
One or more Mactan tribesmen, possibly chieftain Lapu-Lapu himself.
"1521-04-13 - Rajah Humabon, his family, and 800 Sugboanons (people from Cebu) befriended Magellan and converted to Roman Catholicism. Magellan declared the people of Cebu a servant of God and Spain, while the pagan inhabitants of Mactan island became the "enemies of the Church"."
"1521-04-27 - Magellan, with armored men, ploughed ashore Mactan island and fought Lapu-Lapu [the chieftan of Mactan EVT] and his warriors. The encounter is known in Philippine history as the Battle of Mactan. The Spaniards were driven off the island in a terrible defeat, as Magellan was killed while he ordered a retreat."
"It has been suggested that the rest of Magellan's men, most of whom were strongly against his insistence on fighting the native warriors of Mactan, refrained from coming to his aid by ostensibly mooring far from shore, the result of which might be construed as a "passive mutiny.""
"It has also been suggested that Lapu-Lapu killed Magellan himself in single combat. This however, is not very accurate."
"Lapu-Lapu", Wikipedia : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lapu-Lapu
It seems Encyclopædia Britannica disagrees :
"On April 7, 1521, Ferdinand Magellan, the Portuguese navigator, landed there; he was killed by Chief Lapulapu on April 27."
"Mactan Island", Encyclopædia Britannica CD 2000 Deluxe Edition
(Nobody seems to know how Lapulapu died.)
The only eyewitness report of Magellan's death during the battle of Battle of Mactan :
"When morning came, forty-nine of us leaped into the water up to our thighs, and walked through water for more than two cross-bow flights before we could reach the shore. The boats could not approach nearer because of certain rocks in the water. The other eleven men remained behind to guard the boats. When we reached land, [the natives] had formed in three divisions to the number of more than one thousand five hundred people. When they saw us, they charged down upon us with exceeding loud cries... The musketeers and crossbow-men shot from a distance for about a half-hour, but uselessly... Recognizing the captain, so many turned upon him that they knocked his helmet off his head twice... A native hurled a bamboo spear into the captain's face, but the latter immediately killed him with his lance, which he left in the native's body. Then, trying to lay hand on sword, he could draw it out but halfway, because he had been wounded in the arm with a bamboo spear. When the natives saw that, they all hurled themselves upon him. One of them wounded him on the left leg with a large cutlass, which resembles a scimitar, only being larger. That caused the captain to fall face downward, when immediately they rushed upon him with iron and bamboo spears and with their cutlasses, until they killed our mirror, our light, our comfort, and our true guide. When they wounded him, he turned back many times to see whether we were all in the boats. Thereupon, beholding him dead, we, wounded, retreated, as best we could, to the boats, which were already pulling off."
Antonio Pigafetta, a wealthy tourist who paid to be on the Magellan voyage, quoted in "Ferdinand Magellan", Wikipedia : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Magellan#Death
2007-04-14 02:23:17 · answer #1 · answered by Erik Van Thienen 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Magellan Spanish Explorer
2016-12-12 11:35:15 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
On 27.April 1521, the spanish conquering explorer Ferdinand Magellan lost his life in a battle while attempting to make a landing in Punta Engano. Punta Engano is the north-eastern corner of Mactan Island.
2007-04-14 02:03:38 · answer #3 · answered by Juniper 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Magellan, who was really Portuguese, sailed under the Spanish flag to sail around the globe. However, he made it half way, being killed in action in the Philippines. The expedition continued the expedition westward instead of turning back eastward after his death.
2007-04-14 09:46:59 · answer #4 · answered by John 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ferdinand Magellan was killed in 1521 on Mactan island, by the local army, under the command of their chief/king, Lapu Lapu. Lapu Lapu was killed by the fisherman. (sorry, old joke )
2016-05-19 22:24:26 · answer #5 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Killed by tribesmen in the islands now called the Philippines. He got involved in a war between tribes. He joined in one battle and was killed.
2007-04-14 01:54:42 · answer #6 · answered by Mark 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's Lapu-lapu (the fish) who killed Fernando Magallanes. My question is who killed Lapu-lapu?
2007-04-14 04:59:21 · answer #7 · answered by Long B 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's LAPU-LAPU. I'm a Filipino and believe me, I've learned that all my life.
2007-04-14 02:38:48 · answer #8 · answered by rayeraye 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋