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Module 2 Lesson 3

This document discusses the debate around whether the Cry of Balintawak or Cry of Pugadlawin started the Philippine Revolution. It presents arguments and evidence from historical texts favoring both locations, including Teodoro Agoncillo claiming Pugadlawin and Gregorio Zaide favoring Balintawak as the site of the emergency meeting that sparked the revolution. Both sides cite memoirs, accounts, and orders from figures like Bonifacio and Aguinaldo to support their perspective.

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Module 2 Lesson 3

This document discusses the debate around whether the Cry of Balintawak or Cry of Pugadlawin started the Philippine Revolution. It presents arguments and evidence from historical texts favoring both locations, including Teodoro Agoncillo claiming Pugadlawin and Gregorio Zaide favoring Balintawak as the site of the emergency meeting that sparked the revolution. Both sides cite memoirs, accounts, and orders from figures like Bonifacio and Aguinaldo to support their perspective.

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CRY OF BALINTAWAK OR CRY OF

PUGADLAWIN

Module 2: Topic 3
ARGUMENT
FAVORING THE
PUGAD

• Teodoro Agoncillo’s book


‘Revolt of the Masses’
(1956)
• Guillermo Masangkay’s
Account – meeting at
Apolonio Samsom’s house in
Caloocan, dated August 24.
• Renato Constantino’s Book
‘The Philippines: A Past
Revisited’ – the place of the
meeting was in the yard of
Melchora Adatedquino’s son
in Pugadlawin, August 23.
ARGUMENTS
FAVORING
BALINTAWAK

• Gregorio Zaide’s History of


the Filipino People – the
Katipuneros had an
emergency meeting in
Balintawak, dated August 26.
• Emilio Aguinaldo’s Memoir –
on August 22, the Magdalo
Faction received a letter
from Supremo Ander
Bonifacio providing that a
meeting shall be held in
Balintawak on August 24.
Aguinaldo sent Domingo
Orcollo and Crispulo
Aguinaldo as representatives
of the Magdalo Faction.
• Accounts of Lt. Olegario
Diaz
• Orders of Bonifacio –
August 29 shall be the start
of the revolution, where
they will attack Manila.
• Blair and Robertson’s ‘The
Philippine Islands’ Narration
– the Katipunan shall attack
Bulakan, Manila, and Cavite
on August 30.

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