MAYNIGO, KYLA MAE L.

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Instruction: Give a concise explanation/discussion on the following

items.

1. How do you understand the word “Mutiny”?

-I understand the word “Mutiny” as a revolution and rebellion that is open against authorities
and that soldiers as a group disobey their officers.

2. How does Governor Gen. Izquierdo describe Cavite Mutiny compared from the version
of Dr. Trinidad H. Pardo de Tavera?
-Governor Gen. Izquierdo describe Cavite Mutiny as magnification of the event and made
use of it to implicate the native clergy, which was then active in the call for
secularization. The general's report is more spiteful. He cited the main reasons of revolution
which is the non-payment of tributes and exemption from force labor. He also blamed
the unruly Spanish Press for stockpiling malicious propagandas grasped by the
Filipinos. He reported to the King of Spain that the “rebels” wanted to overthrow the
Spanish government to install a new “hari” in the likes of Fathers Burgos and Zamora.
He considered the Cavite Mutiny as a big conspiracy among educated leaders, mestizos,
abogadillos or native lawyers, residents of Manila and Cavite and the native clergy.  
While Dr. Trinidad H. Pardo de Tavera describe it as a bloody incident in Cavite and a mere
mutiny by the native Filipino soldiers and laborers of the Cavite arsenal who turned out
to be dissatisfied with the abolition of their privileges.   He blamed Gov. Izquierdo’s cold-
blooded policies such as the abolition of privileges of the workers and native army
members of the arsenal and the prohibition of the founding of school of arts and trades
for the Filipinos, which the general believed as a cover-up for the organization of a
political club. Tavera believed that the Spanish friars and Izquierdo used the Cavite
Mutiny as a powerful lever by magnifying it as a full-blown conspiracy involving not only
the native army but also included residents of Cavite and Manila, and more importantly
the native clergy to overthrow the Spanish government in the Philippines.   According to
Tavera, this episode leads to the awakening of nationalism and eventually to the
outbreak of Philippine Revolution of 1896. 

3. What does the account of Jose Montro y Vidal tell us? To which version does this
account related to? Explain.
--The account of Jose Montero y Vidal documented and highlighted the Cavite Mutiny as an
attempt of the Indios to overthrow the Spanish government in the Philippines. His
account was related to the version of Gen. Izquierdo because most of the details cited in his
account is similar to Gen. Izquierdo. Mainly, their accounts is corroborated and complimented
with each other. Both Montero and Izquierdo scored out that the abolition of privileges enjoyed
by the workers of Cavite arsenal such as non-payment of tributes and exemption from force
labor were the main reasons of the “revolution” as how they called it, however, other causes
were enumerated by them including the Spanish Revolution which overthrew the secular
throne, dirty propagandas proliferated by unrestrained press, democratic, liberal and republican
books and pamphlets reaching the Philippines, and most importantly, the presence of the native
clergy who out of animosity against the Spanish friars, “conspired and supported” the rebels
and enemies of Spain.    The two Spaniards deemed that the event of 1872 was planned earlier
and was thought of it as a big conspiracy among educated leaders, mestizos, abogadillos or
native lawyers, residents of Manila and Cavite and the native clergy. 

4. Among the versions of Cavite Mutiny, which one is most credible? Why?
- Among the versions of Cavite Mutiny, the “1872 Cavite Mutiny: Spanish Perspective” that
states it is the uprising of the 200 Filipino troops and workers in the year 1872 is the
most credible because the uprising involved the Filipinos who was 200 in total at Cavite
arsenal that at the end it became an excused to Spanish. Also as mutiny was quickly
crushed Spanish used in the incidence as their opportunity to give an excuse so as to
calm down the Filipino who had been calling the reform for governmental. Additionally,
numbers of Filipino were accused leading to three priests being executed after trials.