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    Cry of Pugad Lawin


    Cry of Balintawak

    Part of the Philippine Revolution

    Bonifacio Monument

    Date August 1896 (exact date disputed)

    Location Disputed, officially recognized in Pugad Lawin


    or Balintawak, Caloocan, Province of
    Manila (now Quezon City)

    Result
    Start of Philippine Revolution

     Formation of an insurgent government

    Belligerents

     Katipunan  Spanish Empire

    Commanders and leaders

     Andrés Bonifacio  Ramón Blanco

     Emilio Jacinto  Camilo de Polavieja

     Teodoro Plata  Bernardino Nozaleda


    Casualties and losses

    unknown unknown

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    List of Katipunan Members present in Balintawak in August 1896 by Guillermo Masangkay

    The Cry of Pugad Lawin (Filipino: Sigaw ng Pugad Lawin), alternately and originally referred to as


    the Cry of Balintawak(Filipino: Sigaw ng Balíntawak, Spanish: Grito de Balíntawak), was the
    beginning of the Philippine Revolution against the Spanish Empire.[1]
    At the close of August 1896, members of the Katipunan secret society (Katipuneros) led by Andrés
    Bonifacio rose up in revolt somewhere in an area referred to as Caloocan,[2] wider than the
    jurisdiction of present-day Caloocan City which may have overlapped into present-day Quezon City.
    [3]

    Originally the term "cry" referred to the first clash between the Katipuneros and the Civil
    Guards (Guardia Civil). The cry could also refer to the tearing up of community tax
    certificates (cédulas personales) in defiance of their allegiance to Spain. This was literally
    accompanied by patriotic shouts.[4]
    Because of competing accounts and ambiguity of the place where this event took place, the exact
    date and place of the Cry is in contention.[3][4] From 1908 until 1963, the official stance was that the
    cry occurred on August 26 in Balintawak. In 1963 the Philippine government declared a shift to
    August 23 in Pugad Lawin, Quezon City.[4]

    Contents

     1Different dates and places


     2Definition of the Cry
    o 2.1First skirmish
    o 2.2Tearing of cédulas
    o 2.3Formation of an insurgent government
    o 2.4Other Cries
     3Commemoration
     4References
     5Further reading
     6External links

    Different dates and places[edit]


    Various accounts give differing dates and places for the Cry. An officer of the Spanish guardia civil,
    Lt. Olegario Diaz, stated that the Cry took place in Balintawak on August 25, 1896. Historian
    Teodoro Kalaw in his 1925 book The Filipino Revolution wrote that the event took place during the
    last week of August 1896 at Kangkong, Balintawak. Santiago Alvarez, a Katipunero and son of
    Mariano Alvarez, the leader of the Magdiwang faction in Cavite, stated in 1927 that the Cry took
    place in Bahay Toro, now in Quezon City on August 24, 1896. Pío Valenzuela, a close associate
    of Andrés Bonifacio, declared in 1948 that it happened in Pugad Lawin on August 23, 1896.
    Historian Gregorio Zaide stated in his books in 1954 that the "Cry" happened in Balintawak on
    August 26, 1896. Fellow historian Teodoro Agoncillo wrote in 1956 that it took place in Pugad Lawin
    on August 23, 1896, based on Pío Valenzuela's statement. Accounts by historians Milagros
    Guerrero, Emmanuel Encarnacion and Ramon Villegas claim the event to have taken place
    in Tandang Sora's barn in Gulod, Barangay Banlat, Quezon City.[5][6]
    Some of the apparent confusion is in part due to the double meanings of the terms "Balintawak" and
    "Caloocan" at the turn of the century. Balintawak referred both to a specific place in modern
    Caloocan City and a wider area which included parts of modern Quezon City. Similarly, Caloocan
    referred to modern Caloocan City and also a wider area which included modern Quezon City and
    part of modern Pasig. Pugad Lawin, Pasong Tamo, Kangkong and other specific places were all in
    "greater Balintawak", which was in turn part of "greater Caloocan". [3][4]

    Definition of the Cry[edit]


    The term "Cry" is translated from the Spanish el grito de rebelion (cry of rebellion) or el grito for
    short. Thus the Grito de Balintawak is comparable to Mexico's Grito de Dolores (1810). However, el
    grito de rebelion strictly refers to a decision or call to revolt. It does not necessarily connote shouting,
    unlike the Filipino sigaw.[3][4]
    First skirmish[edit]
    Up to the late 1920s, the Cry was generally identified with Balintawak. It was commemorated on
    August 29, considered the anniversary of the first hostile encounter between the Katipuneros and
    the Guardia Civil. The "first shot" of the Revolution (el primer tiro) was fired at Banlat, Pasong Tamo,
    then considered a part of Balintawak and now part of Quezon City. [4]
    Tearing of cédulas[edit]
    Not all accounts relate the tearing of cédulas in the last days of August. Of the accounts that do,
    older ones identify the place where this occurred as Kangkong in Balintawak/Kalookan. Most also
    give the date of the cédula-tearing as August 26, in close proximity to the first encounter.
    One Katipunero, Guillermo Masangkay, claimed cédulas were torn more than once – on the 24th as
    well as the 26th.[4]
    For his 1956 book The Revolt of the Masses Teodoro Agoncillo defined "the Cry" as the tearing of
    cedulas, departing from precedent which had then defined it as the first skirmish of the revolution.
    His version was based on the later testimonies of Pío Valenzuela and others who claimed the cry
    took place in Pugad Lawin instead of Balintawak. Valenzuela's version, through Agoncillo's
    influence, became the basis of the current stance of the Philippine government. In 1963,
    President Diosdado Macapagal ordered the official commemorations shifted to Pugad ng
    uwak, Quezon City on August 23.[4]
    Formation of an insurgent government[edit]
    An alternative definition of the Cry as the "birth of the Filipino nation state" involves the setting up of
    a national insurgent government through the Katipunan with Bonifacio as President in Banlat,
    Pasong Tamo on August 24, 1896 – after the tearing of cedulas but before the first skirmish. This
    was called the Haring Bayang Katagalugan (Sovereign Tagalog Nation).[3]
    Other Cries[edit]
    In 1895 Bonifacio, Masangkay, Emilio Jacinto and other Katipuneros spent Good Friday in the caves
    of Mt. Pamitinan in Montalban (now part of Rizal province). They wrote "long live Philippine
    independence" on the cave walls, which some Filipino historians consider the "first cry" (el primer
    grito).[4]

    Commemoration[edit]
    The Cry is commemorated as National Heroes' Day, a public holiday in the Philippines.[7]
    The first annual commemoration of the Cry occurred in Balintawak in 1908 after the American
    colonial government repealed the Sedition Law. In 1911 a monument to the Cry (a lone Katipunero
    popularly identified with Bonifacio) was erected at Balintawak; it was later transferred to Vinzons Hall
    in the University of the Philippines-Diliman, Quezon City. In 1984, the National Historical Institute of
    the Philippines installed a commemorative plaque in Pugad Lawin. [4]
    References[edit]
    1. ^ Sichrovsky, Harry.  "An Austrian Life for the Philippines:The Cry of Balintawak".
    Retrieved  August 29,  2009.
    2. ^ Ocampo, Ambeth R. (1995). Bonifacio's bolo. Anvil Pub. p. 8. ISBN 978-971-27-0418-5.
    3. ^ Jump up to:a b c d e Guerrero, Milagros; Encarnacion, Emmanuel; Villegas, Ramon (1996),
    "Balintawak: the Cry for a Nationwide Revolution", Sulyap Kultura, National Commission for Culture
    and the Arts,  1 (2): 13–22.
    4. ^ Jump up to:a b c d e f g h i j Borromeo-Buehler, Soledad M. (1998),  The cry of Balintawak: a
    contrived controversy  : a textual analysis with appended documents, Ateneo de Manila University
    Press, ISBN 978-971-550-278-8.
    5. ^ Duka, Cecilio D. (2008). Struggle for Freedom: A Textbook on Philippine History. Rex Book
    Store, Inc. pp. 141–142. ISBN 978-971-23-5045-0.
    6. ^ "Come August, Remember Balintawak". Archived from the original  on July 11, 2011.
    Retrieved  August 29,  2009.
    7. ^ "Monday holiday remembers historic "Cry of Balintawak"". Retrieved  August 29,2009.[dead link]

    Further reading[edit]
     Soledad Masangkay Borromeo (1998). The Cry of Balintawak: A Contrived Controversy  : a
    Textual Analysis with Appended Documents. Ateneo University Press. ISBN 978-971-550-278-
    8.

    External links[edit]
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     The Cry of Pugad Lawin
     National Historical Institute: Celebrating National Heroes Day [dead link]

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