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| | Siege of Baler |
 | | However, cut off from communications with its owngovernment and military, the defenders of Baler were not aware that the war had actually ended on December 10, 1898, and continued their heroic, if futile, defense against the Philippine forces for 337 days. |
 | | Even today, the town of Baler on the Eastern coast of island of Luzon in the Philippines is quite isolated from that nation's capital city, Manila, some 225 kilometers distant, as the crow flies. |
 | | The Filipinos also had suffered a casualties but mostly from the high rate of accurate Mauser rifle fire the Spanish were able to inflict on them from their protected firing positions in church windows as well as from the enclosed church yard walls and bell tower. |
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