CRY OF P.L or B

• THE CRY OF REBELLION OF PUGADLAWIN

  • Katipunan was discovered by Spanish authorities
  • Bonifacio secretly instructed his runners to summon all the leaders of the society to a general assembly
  • An undeniable fact which the primary witnesses
  • Historians are torn with the place where and date Balintawak, Kangkong, Pugad Lawin, and Bahay Toro, while the dates: 23, 24, 25, or 26 of August 1896
  • Ang Unang Sigaw ng Himagsikan sa Balintawak, Caloocan
• The Accounts of the Cry

  Guillermo Masangkay

  • the cry happened on the 26 of August at the house of Apolonio Samson in Balintawak.
  • Bonifacio, Emilio Jacinto, Aguedo del Rosario, Tomas Remigio, Briccio Pantas, Teodoro Plata, Pio Valenzuela, Enrique Pacheco, and Francisco Carreon.
  • Delegates from Bulacan, Cabanatuan, Cavite, and Morong
  • The meeting was opened with Andres Bonifacio presiding and Emilio Jacinto acting as secretary.
• The Accounts of the Cry

  Guillermo Masangkay

  • “You remember that fate of our countrymen who were shot in Bagumbayan.
  • “Revolt!‟ the people shouted as one.
  • “If it is true that you are ready to revolt. I want to see you destroy your cedulas.
  • It will be a sign that all of us have declared our severance from the Spaniards.”
• The Accounts of the Cry

  Dr. Pio Valenzuela

  • declared a different version stating that the cry happened in Pugad Lawin on August 23, 1896.
  • First place of refuge of Andres Bonifacio, Emilio Jacinto, Procopio Bonifacio, Teodoro Plata, Aguedo del Rosario, and Dr. Pio Valenzuela was Balintawak
  • First five arriving there on August 19 and I on August 20, 1896.
  • 500 members of the Katipunan met on August 22, 1896
  • Only exchanged and no resolution was debated or adopted
• The Accounts of the Cry

  Dr. Pio Valenzuela

  • Pugad Lawin, the house, store-house, and yard of Juan Ramos, son of Melchora Aquino
  • 1, 000 members of Katipunan met and carried out considerable debate and discussion on August 23, 1896.
  • many of those who are present tore the cedula certificated and shouted “Long live the Philippines! Long live the Philippines!”
• The Accounts of the Cry

  Santiago Alvarez

  • narrated in his account the events that transpired in Bahay Toro on August 24, 1896
  • The Supremo began assigning guards at five o‟clock the following morning, Saturday 22 August 1896
• The Accounts of the Cry

  Santiago Alvarez

  • They carried assorted weapons, bolos, spears, daggers, a dozen small revolvers and a rifle used by its owner, one Lieutenant Manuel, for hunting birds
  • 23 August 1896 - They arrived at Bahay Toro
  • Cabesang Melchora - she open her granary and had plenty of rice pounded and animals slaughtered to feed us
  • 24 August - more Katipuneros came and increased our number to more than a thousand.
• The Accounts of the Cry

  Santiago Alvarez

  • The head of the table were Dr. Pio Valenzuela, Emilio Jacinto, Briccio Pantas, Enrique Pacheco, Ramon Bernardo, Pantelaon Torres, Francisco Carreon, Vicente Fernandez, Teodoro Plata
  • An uprising to defend the people‟s freedom was to be started at midnight of Saturday, 29 August 1896.
  • the uprising could be started earlier than the agreed time of midnight of 29 August 1896 should a favorable opportunity arise
• The Accounts of the Cry

  Santiago Alvarez

  • To be on a state of alert so that the Katipunan forces could strike should the situation arise where the enemy was at a disadvantage.
  • The immediate objective was the capture of Manila.
  • After the adjournment of the meeting at twelve noon, there were tumultuous shouts of “Long live the Sons of the People!”
• INSIGHTS ABOUT THE ACCOUNTS OF THE CRY

  • The one claimed that the cry happened in Balintawak on August 26, 1896. In contrary, Masangkay included in his “Memoirs of the Revolution” that it happened in at Pugad Lawin on August 23, 1896.
• INSIGHTS ABOUT THE ACCOUNTS OF THE CRY

  • Guillermo Masangkay changed his narrative on August 26, 1957 in an interview published on the newspaper Bagong Buhay. From August 26, 1986, he stated that the revolution began on August 23, 1896–same as Dr. Valenzuela‟s claim
• INSIGHTS ABOUT THE ACCOUNTS OF THE CRY

  • Dr. Soledad Buehler-Borromeo, his granddaughter, later on retained Masangkay‟s original claim – 26th of August – through several sources which included the Masangkay papers.
• THE PLACE AND DATE OF THE CRY

  • Gregorio Zaide - Balintawak on August 26
  • Teodoro Agoncillo - Pugad Lawin on August 23, 1896
  • Milagros Guerrero, Emmanuel Encarnacion and Ramon Villegas - Tandang Sora‟s barn in Gulod, Banlat, Quezon City
• THE PLACE AND DATE OF THE CRY

  • Teodoro Agoncillo‟ interpretation, National Scientist for History: “It was in Pugad Lawin, where they proceeded upon leaving Samson‟s place in the afternoon of the 22nd, that the more than 1,000 members of the Katipunan met in the yard of Juan A. Ramos, son of Melchora.
• THE PLACE AND DATE OF THE CRY

  • According Dr. Milagros C. Guerrero, Dr. Emmanuel N. Encarnacion, and Mr. Ramon Villegas, all of the places mentioned, Balintawak, Bahay Toro, Pugad Lawin, and Kangkong, are all in Balintawak. The places were then part of Caloocan and later on became part of Quezon City.
  • They claimed that the cry happened on Tandang Sora‟s barn near Pasong Tamo Road in Sitio Gulod, Barrio Banlat, (then under Caloocan) Quezon City, not what the widespread analysis of Agoncillo as included on his book Revolt of the Masses.
• THE PLACE AND DATE OF THE CRY

  • There was no official evidence, even on any Philippine map before World War II, which proves the existence of Pugad Lawin. It only appeared on the Philippine historiography in 1928.
• THE PLACE AND DATE OF THE CRY


  • Important accounts of historical value regarding the event stated that it would happen on August 24, 1896.
  • “The Cry of Pugad Lawin of August 23 is an imposition and erroneous interpretation, contrary to indisputable and numerous historical facts.”
• Dr. Soledad Borromeo-Buehler‟s analysis in her book “The Cry of Balintawak, A Contrived Controversy: A Textual Analysis with Appended Documents

  • Bonifacio invited the Katipuneros in Balintawak so he could discuss his plans for an impending revolution. They gathered at Apolonio Samson‟s place on August 22 to 26, 1896 at Kangkong.
• Borromeo-Buehler


  • “For the moment, one can describe the “Cry” both as a culmination of Bonifacio‟s efforts to force change and the beginning of a sense of Filipino nationhood.
• Dr. Guerrero, Dr. Encarnacion, and Mr. Villegas


  What we should celebrate is the establishment of a revolutionary or the facto government that was republican in aspiration, the designation of Bonifacio as the Kataastaasang Pangulo (Supreme President), the election of the members of his cabinet ministers and Sanggunian and Balangay heads which authorized these moves…”
• On August 25, 1896, Laong‟s series of raids on Chinese sari-sari stores in Balintawak poblacion which attracted the Spanish troops. As response, some Katipuneros left Kangkong that night.
• In Balintawak, Apolonio Samson and Melchora Aquino received and

  provisioned the Katipuneros.
• In the morning of August 26, 1896, Spanish troops headed towards Kangkong. As the alarm was raised, the Katipuneros left for Pasong Tamo, where the first shooting between Filipinos and Spaniards encounter happened. On the same day, shortly before the encounter, they tore their cedulas as sign of “irrevocable commitment to revolt.”
• In Kangkong, heated discussions transpired in their meetings from August 23 to 26 1896. Accordingly, high ranking members of the Katipunan such as Plata, Pantas, Valenzuela, and Pacheco opposed the staging of an early uprising. They ended up agreeing, through an overwhelming vote, that the revolt would be on August 29, 1896.
• Dr. Soledad Borromeo-Buehler


  “The Cry of Balintawak, A Contrived Controversy: A Textual Analysis with Appended Documents