Nice thread. Marami pa ngang mali sa history books natin at sa ibang bansa din. You just need to be resourceful to find real facts one at a time.
Dagdag ko lang...
Lapu-lapu is only a hero of Mactan (where the battle began) - not the entire Philippines (in the same sense na wala pang Pilipinas noon). He only defended his territory and people because he doesn't believe in the religious conversion + other conditions imposed by the invading "Magellan's group" as well as Rajah Humabon's offer. You have to dig up the story behind Humabon and Lapu-lapu's indifferences on the latter's leadership of Mandaue and Mactan, etc.
Magellan had merely a hundred men left from the expedition so it was like a suicide mission - or he compared himself with the other successful colonizers which were also outnumbered like Francisco Pizzaro, Hernan Cortes, etc. But whatever his reasons or belief was, Lapu-lapu's classic strategy beat him.
Lapu-lapu was an old man (roughly in his 70's) during the skirmish battle, so it's assumable that he just ordered his thousand soldiers to defend against the outnumbered squad of Spaniards. Lapu-Lapu was not a native-born islander but a foreigner from Borneo. But we still have to give credit to the first "documented" leader of the islander that opposed and succeeded a foreign invader. Lapu-Lapus' name was documented in history by the Spaniards who returned home, and so the story was told!
Ang pagkaalam ni Magellan at ng kanyang grupo ay nakadiskurbre sila ng bagong lupain, na pinangalan nga niyang Archipelago of Saint Lazarus, bagaman aktwal na mayroon nang isang normal na sibilisasyon, ekonomiya at pakikipag-ugnayan sa mga kalapit na isla tulad ng Borneo, Tsina, atbp noong panahong iyon. Kakaiba lang tayo sa mga mata ng dayuhan, pero dahil tayo ay nasakop din ng mga Espanol kalaunan, hindi na ito nabago sa aklat ng kasaysayan magpahanggang ngayon.