Battle of Calamba

The Battle of Calamba (Filipino: Labanan sa Kalamba) was a battle fought between Filipino Revolutionaries in Laguna in the Philippines and the colonial forces of the Spanish Empire.

Background
Emilio Aguinaldo have returned from exile in Hong Kong and is amassing a large force to drive out the Spanish from Cavite. General Leopoldo Garcia Peña, the Spanish military commander at Cavite, was hard-pressed with 2,800 Spanish troops scattered in various detachments in Cavite Province. The combined forces of Generals Luciano San Miguel, Mariano Noriel, Artemio Ricarte and Juan Cailles, having with them about 6,000-8,000 troops, who began attacking and decimating Peña's units one by one. A column of 500 infantrymen was rushed from Manila to reinforce Peña.

Battle
The revolutionaries under Jose Rizal's brother, General Paciano Rizal who was also the main commander of all revolutionary forces in the province, counterattacked the Spanish column in his hometown Calamba. The revolutionaries then staged an ambush in the vicinity, and many Spaniards became casualties and several of them were captured during the battle.

Aftermath
As a result of their defeat the relief column never came to Peña, who surrendered after the battle of Alapan. The revolutionaries were finished liberating all of Cavite by nightfall of May 31 the same year.