On June 19, 1898, two to three hundred Cuyapenos, under Teniente Isabelo del Valle of Paniqui, Tarlac, answered the call of duty and ambushed a heavily armed contingent of Spanish Cazadores who came from Rosales en route to Tarlac in Bessang (now part of Barangay Maycaban.
:- Convener of the Filipino Ecclesiastical Council (Paniqui Assembly), in response to Mabini’s manifesto urging the Filipino clergies to organize a Filipino National Church.