Bonifacio issued a manifesto on August 28,1896 in which he urged the Filipinos to join the revolution .He ordered the attack on Manila on August 29,1896.It was the best place to attack since it was the center of Spanish colonialism in the Philippines.However,the planned attack did not materialize.
Instead on August 30, Andres Bonifacio and his best friend, Emilio Jacinto, fought the first battle of the Philippine Revolution. Leading an army of eight hundred men, they attacked a gunpowder storehouse in San Juan del Monte (now San Juan, Metro Manila).
Today the place is called Pinaglabanan, meaning battlefield. The storehouse was an important military post for the Spanish army, but it was defended by only a hundred men. Outnumbered, the Spaniards retreated to El Deposito, the place where the Spaniards stored the water supply for the city of Intramuros.
After the attack on San Juan del Monte on August 30,1896,Governor-General Ramon Blanco declared the outbreak of war in Manila,Laguna,Bulacan,Pampanga,Nueva Ecija,Tarlac,Cavite,and Batangas.these provinces were considered to be the first ones to revolt.The eight rays of the sun in the Philippine flag symbolize these eight provinces.
To suppress the revolution,Governor-General Blanco created the Batallon de Leales Voluntarios de Manila which arrested suspected Katipuneros and supporters of the Katipunan.There were many famous citizens who were imprisoned,most of whom were implicated by Bonifacio in documents in order to get their support for the revolutionary cause.Bonifacio's plan backfired since they disowned the Katipunan and were executed by the Spaniards .The arrested Katipuneros were also executed .On September 12,1896,13 men from Cavite were executed.They have been called as the 13 martyrs of Cavite.
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