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FILIPINO VERSION SPANISH VERSIONDIFFERENCE SIMILARITIES DIFFERENCESOURCING● This version was written by Dr. Trinidad H. Pardo de Tavera, Filipino scholar, scientist and historical researcher. ● He was born in Manila of parents belonging to Spanish nobility. During the early years of the American rul...

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SOURCING ● This version was written by Dr. Trinidad H. Pardo de Tavera, Filipino scholar, scientist and historical researcher. ● He was born in Manila of parents belonging to Spanish nobility. During the early years of the American rule he served as a member of Taft’s Philippine Commission and founded the Federal Party ● This source or version is useful and reliable since it is also cited by other authors in their studies about the Cavite Mutiny.

● Written by Jose Montero y Vidal, a spanish historian. ● The event was documented in a book entitled “Historia general de Filipinas”. The event was highlighted as an attempt to overthrow the Spanish Government in the Philippines ● The source is still useful despite the fact that Jose Montero y Vidal is known to have biases against Filipino people and Jesuits. Additionally, Dr. Trinidad H. Pardo de Tavera commented that Vidal does not speak as a historian but as a Spanish. CLOSE READING

● Dr. Trinidad H. Pardo de Tavera has shown in his account that Governor Izquierdo had false premises that Filipinos have political agitation to

● According to both accounts, there truly was dissatisfaction among the workers of the arsenal and the members of the native army after their privileges of

● Jose Montero y Vidal is a prolific Spanish historian who documented the event in his book entitled Historia General de Filipinas.

destroy the Spanish sovereignty. Such that he considered: ○ The founding of a school of arts and trades , organized by the natives, as a suspected excuse to be an avenue for political movement. ○ The assassination of Spanish officers in the fort on the night of January 20, 1872 as a sign of the start of the uprising. ● It displayed how the Madrid Government was easily persuaded by the assertion that there was a plan created of a purported uprising to bring down their power which made them counteract the plans of development in the Philippines and carry out strict measures to alarm the people not to undertake any insurrection . ● Overall, the creator of the account presented a message that the arrival of Governor Izquierdo and his false allegations of

being exempt from paying the annual tribute and rendering forced labor were stripped away by Governor General Izquierdo. ● The Central Government failed to conduct a thorough investigation on what had truly transpired as well as the extent of the alleged revolution and relied mostly on the reports of Governor General Izquierdo.

➢ He is said to have biases against the Filipino people as well as the Jesuits. ● According to his account, the abolition of privileges enjoyed by the workers of Cavite arsenal such as non-payment of tributes was the main reason for the insurrection. ➢ However, other causes were also enumerated: 1. The Spanish Revolution which overthrew the secular throne. 2. Malicious propagandas escalated by an unrestrained press. 3. Democratic as well as republican books and pamphlets reaching the Philippines. 4. The presence of a certain section of the native clergy who out of antagonism against the Spanish friars, connived and supported the "rebels" who were enemies of Spain. ● In this version, it was deemed that the event that happened in 1872 was planned earlier and was considered

the Filipinos have led to major turn of events such as the persecutions and unjust treatments of many martyrs and other Filipino people.

as a big conspiracy amongst some educated leaders, mestizos, abogadillos, residents of Manila and Cavite, and the native clergy. ➢ It was insinuated that the conspirators schemed to eliminate high-ranking Spanish officers to be followed by the massacre of the friars. ● A claim was made that the pre-concerted signal among the conspirators of Manila and Cavite was the firing of rockets from the walls of the city. ➢ However, on the 20th of January in 1872, the district of Sampaloc celebrated the feast of the Virgin of Loreto with the usual fireworks display which allegedly those in Cavite mistook for as the signal to revolt. CORROBORATION

● Native filipino soldiers and laborers were displeased by

● The awakening of nationalism among the Filipino of that time.

● Spanish historian Jose Montero y Vidal centered on how the event was

Izquierdo's official act of abolishing their privileges which caused the mutiny in San Felipe Fort, Cavite. ● The author's purpose: to prove the innocence of the native clergy, intellectuals, and other Filipinos and clarify what really happened and caused the mutiny. ● Evidence: " The persecutions which began under Governor Izquierdo were based on false assumptions that the Filipino were desirous of independence, and although this was an unfounded accusation, there were many martyrs to the cause, who were found among many of the most intelligent and well-to-do people..."

● GomBurZa fathers were executed by strangulation ● Others were also executed and life imprisoned. ● The Cavite mutiny took place in 1872, on the 20th night of January. ● The battle happened at San Felipe fort where marines and artillerymen led by Sergeant La Madrid would revolt. ● The assassination of the commanding officer of the fort and other Spaniards ● An established strict control by General Izquierdo to forced labor even on the days of exemption from the workers obligation to work. Strikes and conflict of interest were present during that time between the Filipino workers and the colonizers.

an attempt to overthrow the Spanish government in the Philippines. ● The author's purpose: to report the incident headed by the native clergy and to strengthen the friar's power in such affairs. ● Evidence: " The insurrection was motivated and prepared by the native clergy, by the mestizos and native lawyers..." "... and instead continued a vigilant watch and wherever possible within the limited means at my command. I had everything ready, taking into account the limited peninsular force which composes the army.

CONTEXTUALIZATION ● Friars used Cavite Mutiny as a part of a larger conspiracy to cement their dominance. They

● The events occurred on the night of January 20, 1872. ● The Mutiny involved Filipinos and

● The Spaniards deemed that the event was planned and there was a big conspiracy among

showcased the mutiny as part of a greater conspiracy in the Philippines by Filipinos to overthrow the Spanish Government. Unintentionally, it resulted in the martyrdom of GOMBURZA and paved the way to the revolution in 1898. ● Dr. Trinidad H. Pardo de Tavera, a Filipino scholar and a researcher wrote the Filipino version of the incident in Cavite. The account of Trinidad Pardo de Tavera was originally written for the official report of the census of 1903 as part of a general survey of the Philippines History. In his account, it is clear that he just wanted to justify wronged and maltreated Filipinos and to inform the readers of the shortcomings of the Spanish government that paved the way to the proceeding of the incident. ● According to Pardo de Tavera, the event was merely a mutiny

Spaniards ● The main audience of this article are the Filipinos and Spaniards. The different accounts aimed to address the different sides of the story with regard to this historic event which led to another tragic yet meaningful part of the Philippine history.

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educated leaders, and the residents of Manila and Cavite. The idea of revolting was primarily caused by: democratic and republican books and pamphlets; speeches and preaching of the apostles of these new ideas of Spain; the outbursts of American publicists; the Spanish revolution After the mutiny, major instigators were killed. The author, Montero y Vidal, wrote this to show their side of the story. However, he failed to speak as a historian since he seemingly empowered and deemed the deeds of the Spaniards to be just and right. He is a Spaniard and, as expected, he stands with the Spanish community. When this document appeared in 1895,it became strongly hostile and many Filipino people described him as biased. Despite his bias on Filipino people, it did not affect his creation. It

by Filipino soldiers and workers at the Cavite Arsenal in reaction to frustration over Izquierdo's draconian policies (abolition of privileges and prohibition of the founding of the school of arts and trades) ● When this document appeared, the Spanish officials and friars ran into a revolt of Philippine interdependence. ● This event does not affect its creation thus, the French writer Edmund Plauchut's account complimented Tavera’s account by confirming the events happened.

corroborated with the account of Governor - General Rafael Izquidero y Gutiérrez, the governor-general of the Philippine Islands during the Mutiny. He even became one of the most knowledgeable Spanish historians in the Philippines....