Catubig is a town in the north of Samar Province, Philippines and was the site of the Siege of Catubig during the Philippine-American War. Samar, formerly Western Samar, is a province of the Philippines located in the Eastern Visayas region. ... The Siege of Catubig was a long, and bloody engagement fought during the Philippine-American War, where Filipino guerillas launched a surprise attack against a detachment of U.S. infantry, and then forced them to abandon the town after a 4 day siege. ... The Philippine-American War was a war between the armed forces of the United States and the Philippines from 1899 through 1913. ...
Eastern Samar and Northern Samar bound the province of Samar on the east and north, respectively, Leyte Gulf on the south and the Samar Sea on the west.
Samar province is hilly, has some mountain peaks ranging from 200 to 800 meters high and narrow strips of lowlands, which tend to lie in coastal peripheries or in the alluvial plains and deltas accompanying large rivers.
Smaller lowlands in Samar are to be found in the Calbayog area and on the deltas and small valleys of Gandara and Ulot rivers.
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