Cavite Mutiny: Spanish Version Vs Filipino Version

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CHAPTER 4

CAVITE MUTINY: SPANISH VERSION VS FILIPINO VERSION

INTRODUCTION
 WHAT: The Cavite mutiny of 1872 was an  claiming again the priests and lawyers as brain
uprising of military personnel of revolution
 WHERE: Fort San Felipe, the Spanish arsenal in  reason: abolish of privilege to the Filipinos
Cavite Philippines  carry out criminal project, protected against the
 WHEN: January 20, 1872 injustice of the government in not paying the
 WHO: Around 200 soldiers and laborers provinces for their tobacco crop.
(Filipino Side) against the Spanish soldiers
 HOW: The mutiny ended as unsuccessful, and SPANISH PERSPECTIVE JOINT
government soldiers executed many of the
participants and began to crackdown  Abolition of privileges enjoyed by the workers
burgeoning of nationalist movement, but at the of Cavite arsenal such as non-payment of
same time many of the scholars believe that tributes and exemption from force labor were
Cavite Mutiny was the beginning of Filipino the main reasons of REVOLUTION as they called
Nationalism that eventually lead to Filipino it.
Revolution of 1896  The Spaniards claim that it was all planned and
thought of big conspiracy among educated
o Rafael Izquierdo y Gutierrez leaders: abogadillos, lawyers and native clergy
 Governor General
 Led to executions includes the  Celebration of the feast of Virgin of Loreto with
priest Mariano Gomez, Jose the usual firework display, unfortunately
Burgos amd Jacinto Zamora mistook those in Cavite as the sign of attack.
 The execution was meant to
threaten other Filipino  and just like what was agreed upon, the 200-
movements but otherwise men contingent headed by Sergeant Lamadrid
wherein on of the Filipinos who launched an attack targeting Spanish officers at
witnessed was Jose Rizal and sight and seized the arsenal
later dedicated to three martyrs
by El Fili. FILIPINO VERSION
 Reflected in the 12 influential Joaquin Pardo de Tavera
events in Philippine history  Filipino scholar , scientist and historical
researcher
WHAT LEAD TO CAVITE
 Served as member of Taft’s Philippine
 2 FACES OF STORY Commission and founded the Federal Party
1. Filipino Side
a. Accounts of Tavera and Plauchut  was simply a mutiny
2. Spanish Side  Izquierdo prohibits the school of arts and trades
a. Accounts of Montero and  Filipinos had great hopes of an improvement in
Izquierdo the affairs of their country while the friars on
the other hand feared that their power in the
SPANISH SIDE colony would soon be complete a thing of the
Jose Montero y Vidal past
 primary cause: overthrow the Spanish  the incident was merely a mutiny by Filipino
government due to abolishment of rights of Soldiers and the laborers of the Cavite arsenal to
Filipinos the dissatisfaction arising from the draconian
 GOMBURZA was claimed to start the revolution policies of Izquierdo
 The conspiracy has been going on since the days  the central government in Madrid was planning
of La Torre. to deprive the friars of all the powers of
 The principal leaders met either at the house of intervention in matters of civil government and
Joaquin Pardo Tavera or Fr. Jacinto Zamora direction and management of educational
institutions.
Governor-general Rafael Izquierdo  The friars needed something to justify their
continuing dominance in the country and
 Spanish military officer, politician the mutiny provided such opportunity.
 Served s Governor-general of the Philippines
around April 4 1871- January 8, 1873
 Known to use iron fist type of government
EDMOND PLAUCHUT

 French journalist
 Join French trade operations in Manila
PERSPECTIVE

 the prosecutions by the new Governor


General, were probably expected as a result
of the bitter disputes between the Filipino
clerics and the friars.
 society of arts and trades is not funded
General Izquierdo suspended the opening of
the school, a day before it’s inauguration.
 The Filipinos had a duty do render services
on the public roads and pay taxes every year
 Exemption: employed in Maestranzas of the
artillery in the engineering shops and
arsenal in Cavite were exempted from the
obligation of from time immemorial

FILIPINO PERSPECTIVE JOINT

 The French writer Edmund Plauchut’s


account complimented Tavera’s account by
confirming that the event happened due to
discontentment of the arsenal workers and
soldiers in Cavite fort
 The Cavite mutiny was an isolated case, it
was not done for main cause of claiming
freedom of the nation but instead of
claiming back the privilege of the workers
that was deprived from them.
 It was not planned for long as when the time
of La Torre the privilege of the arsenal
workers was observed and so it was still not
implicated on the minds of Filipino to raise
their hands.
 There were many martyrs to the cause who
were sentenced to death but this did not
impose fear on Filipino but instead fueled
up the fire in their heart that later on
resulted to the Philippine Revolution of
1896

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