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Gabriela Silang

Filipina insurgent leader · Activists · Lived 1731 to 1763 · aged 32

María Josefa Gabriela Cariño de Silang was a Filipino military leader best known for her role as the female leader of the Ilocano independence movement from Spain.

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She took over from her second husband Diego Silang after his assassination in 1763, leading her people for four months before she was captured and executed by the colonial government of the Captaincy General of the Philippines.

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Lived 1731 to 1763 · aged 32