Battle of Mount Puray

Battle of Mount Puray
Part of the Philippine Revolution

National Historical Commission marker
DateJune 14, 1897
Location
Mount Puray, Montalban, Captaincy General of the Philippines (now Barangay Puray, Rodriguez, Rizal, Philippines)
Result Filipino victory[1][2]
End of the Cavite-Morong Retreat
Belligerents
Filipino Revolutionary Government Spanish Empire
Commanders and leaders
Emilio Aguinaldo
Licerio Geronimo		 Fernando Primo de Rivera
Felipe Dujiols
Strength
500 men[3]: 186  1,500 men[4]
Casualties and losses
Light Heavy

The Battle of Mount Puray (Filipino: Labanan sa Bundok ng Puray, Spanish: Batalla de Monte Puray), sometimes known as Battle of Mount Purog (Filipino: Labanan sa Bundok ng Purog, Spanish: Batalla de Monte Purog), was fought on June 14, 1897, between the Philippine revolutionaries led by Revolutionary President Emilio Aguinaldo and General Licerio Geronimo and Spanish forces sent under orders by Governor-General Fernando Primo de Rivera. Filipino forces won a victory in this battle in which a Spanish army pursuing them was crushed and routed. The Filipinos' victory in the battle ended the long evacuation from Cavite to Morong, and made possible the setting up of their new revolutionary headquarters in the battlefield's vicinity and then later to Biac-na-Bato in Bulacan.

In 2024, the National Historical Commission installed a marker for the battle.[5]

  1. ^ Ma. Christine Halili (2004). Philippine History. ISBN 9789712339349. Retrieved 20 November 2018.
  2. ^ "Aguinaldo's Long March". The Manila Times. 4 June 2011.
  3. ^ Renato Constantino, Letizia R. Constantino (1975). A History of the Philippines. ISBN 9780853453949. Retrieved 28 March 2021.
  4. ^ Ma. Christine Halili (2004). Philippine History. ISBN 9789712339349. Retrieved 20 November 2018.
  5. ^ Standard, Manila (2024-04-30). "Montalban unveils historical, cultural markers". Manila Standard. Retrieved 2024-07-25.