General Álvarez and Colonel Inocencio Salud took charge of the construction of the bamboo fortifications in Dalahican known as "Battery Numbers 1,2 and 3" in September 1896.
Alarmed by previous siege, led by General Aguinaldo in Imus, Cavite in September 1896, Governor-General Ramón Blanco y Erenas ordered the 4th Battalion of Cazadores from Spain to aid him in quelling the rebellion in Cavite.