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Bonifacio and the katipunan
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Andres Bonifacio: Biographical notes. Part VI: March 22, 1897 - April 14, 1897
ANDRES BONIFACIO Biographical notes Part VI: March 22, 1897 – April 14, 1897 22 Mar 1897 Delegates gather at the Tejeros casa hacienda, near Tanza, for a convention that has been recognized ever since as a pivotal event in the revolution. Its proceedings and its consequences are still hotly debated to this day. The leading protagonists (the accounts name fifteen Magdiwangs, eight Magdalos, Andres Bonifacio and two other Manileños) were seated at a long table. A crowd of more than 200 others, a mix of delegates and onlookers, mostly from Magdiwang towns, stood around the sides. The large upstairs sala in the estate house was “absolutely filled to capacity”.1 Emilio Aguinaldo was not present – he was at Pasong Santol, south of Imus, where a Spanish assault was expected imminently. Jacinto Lumbreras (the Magdiwang secretary) took the chair at the start of the meeting, and it seems there was first a very bri
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Andres Bonifacio
Andres Bonifacio (1863-1897), a Filipino revolutionary hero, founded the Katipunan, a secret society which spearheaded the uprising against the Spanish and laid the groundwork for the first Philippine Republic.
Andres Bonifacio was born in Tondo, Manila, on Nov. 30, 1863. He grew up in the slums and knew from practical experience the actual conditions of the class struggle in his society. Orphaned early, he interrupted his primary schooling in order to earn a living as a craftsman and then as clerk-messenger and agent of foreign commercial firms in Manila. Absorbing the teachings of classic rationalism from the works of José Rizal, Victor Hugo's Les Miserables, Eugène Sue's The Wandering Jew, books on the French Revolution, and the lives of the presidents of the United States, Bonifacio acquired an understanding of the dynamics of the sociohistorical process. This led him to join the Liga Filipina, which Rizal organized in 1892 for the purpose of uniting