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    1) The Moro Wars were a series of conflicts between the Spanish colonizers and Moro Muslim groups in the Sulu Sea region, including the Sultanates of Sulu and Maguindanao. 2) The Spanish sought to Christianize the region and control the lucrative trade routes, while the Moro groups resisted colonization to maintain their political independence and alliances. 3) This led to decades of raids and attacks between the two sides, with the Moro groups capturing slaves from Spanish settlements to sell and the Spanish attempting to build fortifications like Fort Pilar in Zamboanga to curb the raids.

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    1) The Moro Wars were a series of conflicts between the Spanish colonizers and Moro Muslim groups in the Sulu Sea region, including the Sultanates of Sulu and Maguindanao. 2) The Spanish sought to Christianize the region and control the lucrative trade routes, while the Moro groups resisted colonization to maintain their political independence and alliances. 3) This led to decades of raids and attacks between the two sides, with the Moro groups capturing slaves from Spanish settlements to sell and the Spanish attempting to build fortifications like Fort Pilar in Zamboanga to curb the raids.

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    1) The Moro Wars were a series of conflicts between the Spanish colonizers and Moro Muslim groups in the Sulu Sea region, including the Sultanates of Sulu and Maguindanao. 2) The Spanish sought to Christianize the region and control the lucrative trade routes, while the Moro groups resisted colonization to maintain their political independence and alliances. 3) This led to decades of raids and attacks between the two sides, with the Moro groups capturing slaves from Spanish settlements to sell and the Spanish attempting to build fortifications like Fort Pilar in Zamboanga to curb the raids.

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    RAIDERS OF THE SULU SEA:

    They Were Considered Pirates


    but Were They Really?
    COURSE DEVELOPERS:
    Prof. Percival GABRIEL
    Prof. Rhinalou Cervantes-SALAMAT
    HISTORICAL CONTEXT
    Christianization stopped along the fringes of the islands of
    Visayas and did not effectively reach the island of Min-
    danao.
    • This was due to the ferocity of the Min-
    danao tribesmen who inflicted undaunted
    resistance against the colonizers.
    • 1591 – The Spanish colonial gov-
    ernment decided to colonize Min-
    danao to force its subjection under
    the colonial government.
    • Colonizing means Christianizing
    the natives.
    • This precipitated the Moro wars
    which took different turns.
    MORO WARS
    • The religious color of the conflict
    • The commercial desire of the Spaniards
    • To control the trade from Sulu to
    other parts of Southeast Asia
    • To make Sulu a base to launch the
    invasion of Molucas.
    • The colonization of Mindanao would
    subject the inhabitants of the island
    to the tribute system of Spain and
    thereby depriving the Rajas of their
    political control of their territories.
    MORO ATTACKS
    • In April 1596, Esteban Rodriguez de Figueroa
    (governor in Mindanao) was hacked on the head
    by a kampilan while in Cotabato.
    • The Sultan of Tarnate (an island in Molucas)
    launched a pre-emptive attack in Spanish held
    pueblo in the Visayas before the Spaniards could
    invade them.

    • These Sultans from Maguindanao and Sulu were sustained by external


    help due to blood ties and previous alliances.
    • Sulu with Brunei and Maguindanao with Tarnate.
    • Sulu and Maguindanao Sultans were also receiving help and insinua-
    tions from the Dutch challenging the Spanish colonial foothold in
    Manila.
    • In 1602, another attack was mounted on the coast of Southern Luzon which
    took 1,400 captives.
    (Adib Majul 1978:1081-1084)
    MORO RAIDS
    • Reached several parts of Luzon:
    • Not so much of religious but pirati-
    cal attacks where the captives
    were then sold as slaves.
    • Fray Joaquin Martinez de Zuñiga’s ac-
    count:
    • “The new province of Bataan in-
    cluded absorbed the towns of
    Mariveles, Cabcaben, Bagac and
    Morong, but because of these
    towns were so small and had
    dwindled very much in population
    as a result of Moro invasions, it
    was necessary to incorporate with
    Pampanga portion big enough to
    form a town altogether.
    To stop the pillaging and plunder of Chris-
    tian towns…
    • Jesuit missionaries advised Gov. Gen. Juan Cerezo de
    Salamanca to build a fort in Zamboanga
    • Gov. Gen. JUAN CEREZO DE SALAMANCA
    • Approved the plan in 1635 as a staging assault
    to Sulu
    • Fray Melchor de Vera (April 1635) – a Jesuit
    engineer with 1,000 Visayan and 300 Spanish
    construction workers, embarked on to Zam-
    boanga and began the construction of the fort in
    June 1635
    • Gov. Gen. SEBASTIAN HORTADO DE CORCUERA
    • Relieved Gov. Gen. de Salamanca in 1635; Con-
    tinued the building of fortification
    • Brought with him laborers to as far as Cavite,
    Bohol, Cebu and Panay to quicken the construc-
    tion

    (National Museum 2018)


    THE BUILDING OF THE FORTIFICATION

    • In order to finance the construc-


    tion of FORT PILAR in Zam-
    boanga, the Spaniards imposed
    an additional tax called dona-
    tivo de Zamboanga of ½ real.
    • In addition, the natives of Bula-
    can and Pampanga chose to
    pay an additional tax of ½ real
    more as protection of their coast-
    line from Moro attacks and de-
    struction.

    (Phlen 1901:689-690)
    SPANISH ASSAULTS

    • CAPT. NICOLAS GONZALES


    • On December 25, 1636, waged an assault
    on Datu Tagal, the brother of Sultan Cor-
    ralat (Kudarat) of Maguindanao and killed
    Datu Tagal in the Battle of Punta de
    Flechas
    (Gutierrez 1990: 205)
    • The hero of the Battle of Punta de
    Flechas

    • Mounted assault on the brother


    of Datu Tagal to finally subdue
    Sultan Corralat and conquer
    Maguindanao in March 1636

    (Mastrili 1990:210)
    SPANISH ASSAULTS…

    • The three tribes known as


    Balangigi-Samal, Ilanuns,
    and Sulu employed sea-
    faring warriors known as
    Tausugs who were at the
    forefront of the raids.

    (Pinoy Islands 2011)

    • They posed as fishermen and hid themselves on mangroves


    or wait on land and without warning draw their swords at the
    unsuspecting fishermen.
    • They bore holes on their palms where they were slung and
    tied together, loaded on their boats and the fishermen sold as
    slaves in Southeast Asian communities.

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