Name: Hannah Deatras 1st year college BEED-GEN.

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Instructor: Xcerielle Rheena L. Lasmarias
Subject: Reading In Philippines History (GE2)

Cry of Balintawak

The start of the revolution against Spain has been officially commemorated in
recent years as The Cry of Pugad Lawin. The supposed site of Pugad Lawin is
situated in Brgy. Bahay Toro, Quezon City, and is memorialized with a tableau of
life-sized, oddly rigid Katipuneros tearing their cedulas. The Cry of Balintawak
occurred on August 26, 1896. The Cry, defined as that turning point when the
Filipinos finally refused Spanish colonial dominion over the Philippine Islands.
With tears in their eyes, the people as one man, pulled out their cedulas and tore
them into pieces. It was the beginning of the formal declaration of the separation
from Spanish rule."Long Live the Philippine Republic!", the cry of the people. The
Phillippine revolution in 1896 the survivors of the the katipunan uprising of 1896
generally agreed that the philippines Revolution started on the 26 th of August 1896
in Balintawak.

The version that i believe in cry of balintawak is in a version of Guliermo

Masangkay, beacuse Guliermo Masangkay he was the eyewitness of the historic event
and also a childhood friend of Bonifacio. According to his article on August 26th, it
was a big meeting was held in Balintawak, at the house of Apolonio Samson, then cabeza of that
barrio of Caloocan. Among those who attended are Bonifacio, Emilio Jacinto, Aguedo del
Rosario, Tomas Remigio, Briccio Pantas, Teodoro Plata, Pio Valenzuela, Enrique Pacheco, and
Francisco Carreon. They were all leaders of the Katipunan and composed the board of directors of
the organization. Delegates from Bulacan, Cabanatuan, Cavite, and Morning were also present. In
nine o'clock in the morning of August 26, the meeting was opened with Andres Bonifacio
presiding and Emilio Jacinto acting as secretary. The purpose was to discuss when the uprising
was to take place. Andres Bonifacio, sensing that he would lose the discussion then, left the
session hall and talked to the people, who were waiting outside for the result of the meeting of the
leaders. He told the people that the leaders were arguing against starting the revolution early, and
appealed to them in a fiery speech in which he said that 'You remember the fate of our countrymen
who were shot in Bagumbayan. Should we return now to the towns, the Spaniards will only shoot
us. Our organization has been discovered and we are all marked men. If we don't start the
uprising, the Spaniards will get us anyway. And he said "Revolt!" the people shouted as one.

According to his account of Cry of balintawak, Guliermo Masangkay saw Bonifacio asked the
people to give a pledge that they were to revolt. He also heared Bonifacio told the people that the
sign of slavery of the Filipinos were the cedula tax charged each citizen. "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 Cry of Balintawak occurred on August 26, 1896. The Cry,
defined as that turning point when the Filipinos finally refused Spanish colonial dominion over
the Philippine Islands. With tears in their eyes, the people as one man, pulled out their cedulas and
tore them into pieces. It was the beginning of the formal declaration of the separation from
Spanish rule."Long Live the Philippine Republic!", the cry of the people.

According to the article from The Sunday Tribune Magazine on August 21, 1932 featured the
statements of the eyewitness account by Katipunan General Guillermo Masangkay, "A Katipunero
Speaks". Masangkay recounts the "Cry of Balintawak", stating that on August 26,1896, a big
meeting was held in Balintawak at the house of Apolonio Samson, then the cabeza of that barrio
of Caloocan. At about nine o'clock in the morning of August 26, the meeting was opened with
Andres Bonifacio presiding and Emilio Jacinto acting as Secretary. In August 1896, after the
Katipunan was discovered, Masangkay joined Bonifacio, Emilio Jacinto, and others in a
clandestine meeting held on the 26th of that month at Apolonio Samson’s house in Caloocan.
Initially, the leaders of the movement quarreled over strategy and tactics, and many of its
members questioned the wisdom of an open rebellion due to the lack of arms and logistical
support. However, after Bonifacio’s intense and convincing speech, everyone destroyed their
cedulas to symbolize their defiance towards Spain and, together, raised the cry of revolt.
According to the report of Fernandez 2018, in Cry of balintawak only Guillermo Masankay
papers are the source of information from within the rebel camo that easy to understand the event
of the revolution.

I conclude that first Pugad Lawin was never officially recognized as a place name on
any Philippine map before Second World War. Second, Pugad Lawin appeared in
historiography only from 1928, or some 32 years after the events took place and the
third, the revolution was always traditionally held to have occurred in the area of
Balintawak, which was distinct from Kalookan and Diliman.Therefore, while the
toponym Pugad Lawin is more romantic, it is more accurate to stick to the original
Cry of Balintawak. I believe that Guliermo Masangkay was the childhood friend of Andres
Bonifacio and a eyewitness of the historic event of the Cry of Balintawak and Guillermo
Masangkay’s final statement has more weight as it is was corroborated by many eyewitnesses who
were photographed in 1917, when the earliest 23 August marker was installed and he is the only
one person have the information within a Cry of Balintawak that easy to understand than the other
version.