Because he capture the powerful British warship Serapis
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john paul jones
Traitor. He pledged allegiance to the Americans & to the Japanese during their occupation. Is that a hero? Did Rizal, Bonifacio, Antonio Luna & Gregorio del Pilar and others do that?
John Brown was considered an abolitionist hero of the first magnitude and a treasonous rebel by the federal govt.
Otherwise known as the Swamp Fox, Francis Marion was a guerrilla warfare tactician during the Revolutionary War that won many battles for the Americans.
Actually, it is said that the Americans were the one to proclaim him our national hero... He's kind of responsible for our freedom, for awakening our consciousness and brigning us back to reality that 'this is our country' and then stirring a revolution to freedom... There are many others responsible for our freedom too.