At 5 AM on 4 April, the rebels drove the Governor, General Montero, and his Spanish volunteers into Fort San Pedro and took control of Cebu City.

[1]: 402  When the gunboat Maria Cristina opened fire, the rebels retreated to the Chinese quarter of Lutao.

[1]: 402  On 7 April, 500 men of the 73rd Native Regiment and Spanish cazadores arrived under the command of General Tejeiro, and with the cruiser Don Juan de Austria, forcing the rebels to retreat to San Nicolas.

[1]: 403  The Spanish continued their pursuit of the rebels on 8 April into the mountain region.

[1]: 404 Leon Kilat was killed by his aide-de-camp, Apolinario Alcuitas, on April 8, 1898.