Grito de Lares

Belligerents

Republic of Puerto Rico

• Puerto Rico Liberation Army

Spanish Empire

• Captaincy General of Puerto Rico

Commanders and leadersFrancisco Ramírez Medina
Ramón Emeterio Betances
Manuel Rojas Luzardo
Mathias BrugmanStrength 400–600 rebels unknownCasualties and losses 4 battle deaths
6 wounded
7 captured -

Grito de Lares (Cry of Lares), also referred to as the Lares revolt, or the Lares revolution, was the first short revolt against Spanish rule in Puerto Rico, staged by the Revolutionary Committee of Puerto Rico on September 23, 1868. Three decades after its uprising in Lares, the committee carried out a second unsuccessful revolt in the neighboring southwestern municipality of Yauco, known as the Intentona de Yauco (Attempted Coup of Yauco). The Grito de Lares flag is recognized as the first flag of Puerto Rico.