On February 4,1999 the whole nation commemorate the centennial of the Outbreak of the Philippine-America which signals  the start of any other major battle beet win the Filipino revolutionists and the American forces.One of those major battle fought by the Filipino Freedom fighters under the leadership of General Emillion Aguinaldo included the battle of Paye which took place in a sitio of Barangay,Balimbing,Boac Marinduque.

In the early morning of September 13, 1900, Captain Devereaux Shields led 51 soldiers of Company F,Twenty-ninth U.S. Infantry in reconnoitering the mountains near Torrijos town, Marinduque. After three hours of hiking, the company's vanguard stumbles upon a revolutionary camp and fires at it. Too late, they realize that they are almost completely encircled by guerillas hiding 300 yards to the north.