GREGORIA MONTOYA
Montoya was said to be a very strong woman. There are claims that she could lift one end of a heavy wooden beam while several men had to help one another raise the other end. When the revolution broke out in 1896, Montoya signed up with the Magdalo faction of the Katipunan. She headed the faction in the battle of Imus, where 13 arms were captured from the enemy. Aguinaldo ordered her to lead a team of Katipuneros to destroy a wooden bridge across the Mabolo River, which separated Binakayan from Bacoor in order to delay the advance of General Blanco's troop, who were determined to quell the Cavite uprising. On 10 November 1896, she led a force of 30 Magdalo men in Noveleta, close to the beach of Dalahican. She is said to have stood on top of a battery, one hand holding up the Katipunan flag aloft and another hand clasping a bolo. In the ensuing battle, she was hit right in her midsection by a cannonball fired from a Spanish navy boat off Dalahican beach but survived. Her second husband died in the same battle.
Montoya was said to be a very strong woman. There are claims that she could lift one end of a heavy wooden beam while several men had to help one another raise the other end. When the revolution broke out in 1896, Montoya signed up with the Magdalo faction of the Katipunan. She headed the faction in the battle of Imus, where 13 arms were captured from the enemy. Aguinaldo ordered her to lead a team of Katipuneros to destroy a wooden bridge across the Mabolo River, which separated Binakayan from Bacoor in order to delay the advance of General Blanco's troop, who were determined to quell the Cavite uprising. On 10 November 1896, she led a force of 30 Magdalo men in Noveleta, close to the beach of Dalahican. She is said to have stood on top of a battery, one hand holding up the Katipunan flag aloft and another hand clasping a bolo. In the ensuing battle, she was hit right in her midsection by a cannonball fired from a Spanish navy boat off Dalahican beach but survived. Her second husband died in the same battle.
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