OCOMIN APRIL JOY L.

BSHM1A

PIO VALENZUELA
- "The first Cry of the revolution did not happen in Balintawak where the monument is,
but in a place called Pugad Lawin." In 1940, a research team of a forerunner of
the National Historical Institute (NHI) which included Valenzuela, identified the location
as part of sitio Gulod, Banlat, Kalookan City. IN 1964, the NHI described this location as
the house of Tandang Sora.[8]
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It was at Pugad Lawin, the house, store-house, and yard of Juan Ramos, son of
Melchora Aquino, where over 1,000 members of the Katipunan met and carried out
considerable debate and discussion on August 23, 1896 on August 29, 1896..

SANTIAGO ALVAREZ

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The account of Santiago Alvarez regarding the Cry of Balintawak flaunted specific
endeavors, as stated:
. We crowded into the house to rest and warm ourselves. We were so tired that, after
hanging our clothes out to dry, we soon feel asleep. The Supremo began assigning
guards at five o'clock the following morning, Saturday 22 August 1896. He placed a
detachment at the Balintawak boundary and another at the backyard to the north of the
house where we were gathered. No less than three hundred men assembled at the
bidding of the Supremo Andres Bonifacio. Altogether, they carried assorted weapons,
bolos, spears, daggers, a dozen small revolvers and a rifle used by its owner, one
Lieutenant Manuel, for hunting birds. Our member had grown to more than 500 and the
house, yard, and warehouse of Cabesang Melchora was getting crowded with us
Katipuneros. The generous hospitality of Cabesang Melchora was no less than that of
Apolonio Samson. Like him, she also opened her granary and had plenty of rice
pounded and animals slaughtered to feed us. The following day, Monday, 24 August,
more Katipuneros came and increased our number to more than a thousand. The
Supremo called a meeting at ten o'clock that morning inside Cabesang Melchora's barn.
Flanking him on both sides at 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, and others. We were so
crowded that some stood outside the barn. The following matters were approved at the
meeting:

RESOURCES
-I agree because Independence, freedom, sovereignty are empty words if millions of our
countrymen are enslaved by the indignity of poverty. It does not matter when the
“Cry of Balintawak” or the “Cry of Pugad Lawin” transpired.
- Prior to the outbreak of the revolution, Santiago was already a delegado
general of the provincial council of the Katipunan in Cavite. He became captain general
and later, commander-in-chief, of the Magdiwang forces and valiantly fought the
Spaniards from 1896 to 1897.