Teresa Magbanua
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| Birth name | Teresa Magbanua y Ferraris |
| Nickname(s) | Nanay Isa Nay Isa Visayan "Joan of Arc" |
| Born | October 13, 1868 Pototan, Iloilo, Visayas, Captaincy General of the Philippines |
| Died | August 1947 (aged 78) Pagadian, Zamboanga del Sur, Mindanao, Philippines |
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| Service/branch |
 Philippine Revolutionary Army
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| Years of service | 1896-1900 |
| Rank | Brigadier General (disputed) |
| Commands held | Bolo Battalion |
| Battles/wars |
Philippine Revolution * Battle of Barrio Yoting * Battle of Sapong Hills Philippine-American War * Battle of Iloilo City * Battle of Balantang World War II * Philippine Resistance (1941–45) |
| Relations | Juan Magbanua (Father) Alejandra Ferraris (Mother) Alejandro Balderas (Husband) Perfecto Poblador (Uncle) Pascual Magbanua (Brother) Elias Magbanua (Brother) |
First Philippine Republic
Katipunan
Teresa Magbanua, dubbed the "Visayan Joan of Arc" (October 13, 1868 – August 1947), from Pototan, Iloilo, Philippines, was a schoolteacher and military leader. 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 the Spanish Empire 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 head by Andrés Bonifacio.
Despite opposition from her husband, Magbanua followed her two younger brothers and took up arms against the Spanish, leading troops into combat and winning several battles under the command of General Martin Delgado. Magbanua is credited as the only woman to lead troops in the Visayan region during the Revolution. Shortly thereafter, Magbanua shifted to fighting American colonial forces during the Philippine–American War. In her later life, she provided supplies to guerrilla fighters in the resistance movement against the Japanese Occupation during the Second World War. Magbanua died a widow aged 78 in Mindanao.
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