If you ever wondered why the revolutionary Bonifacio is not our national hero, then wonder no more.
The so-called Cry of Balintawak was renamed in 1968 to the Cry of Pugad Lawin solely because Andres Bonifacio screwed up, big time. According to multiple members in the Katipunan during the early 1900s, that fateful night in August 26, 1896 in Balintawak was usurped three days earlier in Pugad Lawin because Andres Bonifacio mistook the dry run in the latter as the actual event, depleting the numbers once the former finally happened.
This was because a weary Bonifacio, exhausted from planning and mapping out the revolution, ended up falling asleep during the dry run of the revolution in Pugad Lawin, and woke up thinking it was already the real thing. Because Bonifacio’s actions were so convincing, in no small part due to
his indefatigable charisma, majority of those who were there in Pugad Lawin during the dry run did not actually show up in Balintawak, for when they were all fully armed to fend off the Spanish guards.
This resulted in disaster, as the Katipuneros were soundly trounced in Balintawak because of Bonifacio’s mistake. From this point on, the revolution was demoralized, and it took a two-pronged attack from Filipinos and the Americans before Spain decided to relinquish its three-century long rule on the Philippines.
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