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| | The Battles of Bud Daha' and Bud Bagsak: Monuments to Tausug heroism and martyrdom |
 | | The Battle of Bud Dahu' (Mt. Dahu') involved about 900 (Kho) Tausug kuta' (fort) defenders (many women and children among them) who were armed with krises, barungs, spears and some rifles (other sources put the figure at 600 or 1,000 rebels). |
 | | Still defiantly unwilling to yield to American rule and military might despite the Bud Dahu' debacle seven years earlier, about 5,000 Tausugs (Kho) engaged the US forces in the Battle of Bud Bagsak (other sources put the figure at 2,000 or 6,000 or 10,000 Tausugs), of whom 2,000 were killed. |
 | | Indeed, both the Bud Dahu' and Bud Bagsak encounters were not really massacres of weak, innocuous and helpless natives; rather, they were fierce struggles of brave resistance fighters who rolled logs and boulders down to the advancing US troops and rushed at them time after time. |
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