In an emotion-laden ceremony, the fighters tore their residence certificates to symbolize the termination of their loyalty to Spain while shouting the battle cry: "Long live Philippine independence!" The event went down in Philippine history as the "Cry of Balintawak" and is regarded as the starting signal for the Philippine revolution.
Explanation:
Today, a monument marks this site which shows a Philippine peasant swinging the "bolo", the national variation of the machete.
