AT1.

Analyzing History
Expected Output: Analysis
Instructions: Know the perspective of the author. What is the perspective or point
of view of the authors on how and who are involved in the Cavite Mutiny? Follow
the format below:

Authors’ Perspective
The Natives The Spanish
 Dr. Trinidad Hermenigildo Pardo de  GOMBURZA (Fr. Gomez, Fr. Burgos,
Tavera – a Filipino scholar and and Fr. Zamora) – leaders/masterminds of
researcher who wrote the Filipino the Cavite who wanted to overthrow the
version of the bloody incident in cavite Spanish government to install a new “hari”
- In his point of view, the incident was by their likings.
a mere mutiny by the native Filipino
soldiers and laborers of the Cavite  Gov. Gen. Rafael Izquierdo – he
magnified the event and made use of it to
arsenal who turned out to be
implicate the native clergy, which was then
dissatisfied with the abolition of their active in the call for secularization.
privileges.
 Sergeant Lamadrid – headed the 200 –
 Segismundo Moret – he promoted men contingent attack targeting Spanish
the fusion of sectarian schools run by officers at sight and seized the arsenal.
the friars into a school called
Philippine Institute. Tavera believed  Patriots (Joaquin Pardo de Tavera,
that the Spanish friars and Izquierdo Antonio Ma. Regidor, Jose, Pio Basa
used the Cavite Mutiny as a powerful and other abogadillos) – were
lever by magnifying it as a full-blown suspended by the Audencia from the
conspiracy involving not only the practice of law, arrested and were
native army but also included sentenced with life imprisonment at the
residents of Cavite and Manila, and Marianas Island.
more importantly the native clergy to
overthrow the Spanish government in  Jose Montero y Vidal – a prolific Spanish
the Philippines. historian documented the event and
highlighted it as an attempt of the Indios to
overthrow the Spanish government in the
 Friars – fearing that their influence in Philippines.
the Philippines would be a thing of the
past, took advantage of the incident
and presented it to the Spanish
Government as a vast conspiracy
organized throughout the archipelago
with the object of destroying Spanish
sovereignty. 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
Frenchman, however, dwelt more on
the execution of the three martyr
priests which he witnessed.
 
 

Reference:
https://nhcp.gov.ph/the-two-faces-of-the-1872-cavite-mutiny/