Editing Katipunan (section)

===Kakarong Republic===
History and researchers, as well as records of the [[National Historical Commission]], tells that the "Kakarong Republic" was the first and truly organized revolutionary government established in the country to overthrow the Spaniards antedating event the famous [[Malolos Republic]] and the [[Biak-na-Bato Republic]]. In recognition thereof, these three "republics" established in Bulacan have been incorporated in the seal of the province of Bulacan.

According to available records including the biography of General [[Gregorio del Pilar]] entitled ''Life and Death of a Boy General'' written by [[Teodoro Kalaw]], former director of the [[National Library of the Philippines]], a fort was constructed at "Kakarong de Sili" that was like a miniature city. It had streets, an independent police force, a musical band, a factory of falconets, bolos and repair shops for rifles and cartridges. The 'Kakarong Republic' had a complete set of officials with Canuto Villanueva as Supreme Chief and 'Maestrong Sebio'—Eusebio Roque as Brigadaier General of the Army. The fort was attacked and totally destroyed on January 1, 1897, by a large Spanish force headed by the Commandant [[José Olaguer Feliú|Olaguer-Feliu]].<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=gUt5v8ET4QYC&q=olaguer Halili 2004, pp. 145–146].</ref> Del Pilar was only a lieutenant at the time and the [[Battle of Kakarong de Sili]] was his "baptism of fire." This was where he was first wounded and escaped to nearby barangay 'Manatal.'

The Kakarong Lodge No. 168 of the 'Legionarios del Trabajo', named in memory of the 1,200 Katipuneros who perished in the battle, erected a monument named the ''Inang Filipina'' Shrine – (Mother Philippines Shrine) in 1924 in the barrio of Kakarong of Pandi, Bulacan.

The actual site of the Battle of Kakarong de Sili is now a part of the barangay of Réal de Kakarong. No less than one of the greatest generals in the Philippines' history, General [[Emilio Aguinaldo]] who became the first Philippine president visited this sacred ground in the late 1950s.