PRIMARY SOURCE: EXCERPTS FROM THE OFFICIAL REPORT OF GOVERNOR

IZQUIERDO ON THE CAVITE MUTINY OF 1872

SOURCE: Rafael Izquierdo, “Official Report on the Cavite Mutiny,” in Gregorio Zaide and Sonia
Zaide, Documentary Sources of Philippines History. Volume 7(Manila: National Book Store, 1990),
281--286

CAVITE MUTINY

 Mutiny
A rebellion against authority. Mutiny comes from an old verb “mutine” which means
“revolt”.
 Cavity mutiny uprising military personnel of Fort San Felipe (the Spanish arsenal in Cavite,
Philippines) on January 20 1872.
 Around 200 soldiers and laborers rose up in the belief that it would elevate to a national
uprising. The mutiny was unsuccessful, and executed many of the participants.

SPANISH ACCOUNTS OF THE CAVITE MUTINY

 Jose Montero Y Vidal

 His account centered on how the event was an attempt in overthrowing the Spanish
government in the Philippines.
 Spanish historian

MONTERO’S ACCOUNT OF THE MUTINY

 The idea of attaining their independence, it was towards this goal that they started to work, with
the powerful assistance of a certain section of the native clergy.

GOVERNOR RAFAEL IZQUIERDO

 Implicated the native clergy, who were active in the movement toward secularization of
parishes.
 In a biased report, he highlighted the attempt to overthrow the Spanish government in the
Philippines to install a new “hari” in the persons of Father Burgos and Zamora.
  Native clergy attracted supporters by giving them charismatic assurance that their fight would
not fall because they had God’s support, aside from promises of lofty rewards such as
employment, wealth, and ranks in the army.
 It has not been clearly determined if they planned to establish a monarchy or a republic,
because the indios have no word in their language to describe this form of government whose
head in Filipino would be called hari, but its turns out that they would place at the head of the
government a priest that the head selected would be D. Jose Burgos or D. Jacinto Zamora.

SPANISH ACCOUNTS underscore the reason for the revolution; abolition of privileges enjoyed by the
workers of Cavite arsenal such as exemption from payment of tribute and being employed in POLOS Y
SERVICIOUS (force labor)

In the Spaniards accounts 1872 was premeditated a part of a big conspiracy among educated leaders,
mestizos, lawyers and residents of Manila and Cavite. They allegedly plan to liquidate high – ranking
Spanish officers then kill friars.

The accounts detail that on JANUARY 20 1872 the district of Sampaloc celebrated the feast of the Virgin
Loreto came with it were some fireworks display. The Cavitenos mistook this as the signal to commerce
with the attack.

SPANISH ACCOUNTS

 200 men was led by Sergeant Lamadrid attacked Spanish officers at sight and seized the
arsenal.
 Iquierdo, upon learning the attack, ordered reinforcement of the Spanish forces in Cavite to
quell the revolt.
 The revolution was easily crushed when Manilenos who were expected to aid the Cavitenos
did not arrive.

IN RESULT, LEADERS OF THE PLOT WERE KILLED; FTHER GOMEZ, BURGOS & ZAMORA
WERE TRIED BY A COURT – MARTIAL AND SENTENCED TO BE EXECUTED.

OTHERS WHO WERE IMPLICATED SUCH AS JOAQUIN PARDO DE TAVERA, ATONIO NA

REGIDOR, JOSE BASA, PIO BASA, AND AMONG FILIPINOS LAWYERS, ARRESTED, AND
SENTENCED TO LIFE IMPRISONENT AT THE MARIANAS ISLAND.

FEBRUARY 17 1872
  The Gomburza were executed by garrote in public to serve as a threat to Filipinos never to
attempt to fight the Spaniards again. This is the scene purportedly witnessed by a young Jose
Rizal.

DIFFERING ACCOUNTS OF THE EVENTS OF 1872

DR. TRINIDAD HERMENEGILDO PARDO DE TAVERA

 A Filipino scholar and researcher

 He wrote a Filipino version of the bloody incident in Cavite.
 The incident was merely amutiny by Filipino soldiers and laborers of the Cavite arsenal to the
dissatisfaction arising from the draconian policies of Iquiezerdo.

PRIMARY SOURCE; EXCERPTS FROM PARDO DE TAVERA’S ACCOUNT OF THE

CAVITY MUTINY

SOURCE; Trinidad Pardo De Tavera, “Filipino version of the Cavite Mutiny”, in Gregorio Zaide and
Sonia Zaide, documentary source of Philippine history, volume 7 (Manila: National Book Store, 1990),
274—280.

THE CENTRAL SPANISH GOVERNMENT

- Was planning to deprive the friars of all the powers of intervention in matters of civil government
and direction and management of education institutions.
- Filipinos had great hopes of an improvement in the affairs of their country.
- The friars feared that their power in the colony would soon be complete a thing of the past.

READINGS IN PHILIPPINES HISTORY

What Happened
 in the

Cavite Mutiny

(written report)

Submitted by: Lugo, Mary Joy Sevilla

BEED GEN 1D

Submitted to: Fernando Morla Sr.

September 30 2019