Areas of Analytical “Katipunan and the
Comparison Revolution”
Excerpt from
Santiago Alvarez
Historical Source “Katipunan and the
Revolution”, an excerpt
from Santiago Alvarez is a
primary source. It is
considered as a first-hand,
because of its facts and
documents, they are all from
the memoirs of the general
that was in the actual event.
Author Santiago V. Alvarez was
born on July 25 year 1872 in
Noveleta, Cavite. He is the
son of Mariano Alvarez, a
Filipino General.
On his early years, he
studied under Macario
Hernandez at his school
located on Camba Street in
Manila. Subsequently,
Alvarez attended San Juan
de Letran College and
University of Santo Tomas.
After the tumultuous cry for
national freedom, he
decided to resume his
“History of the Filipino
People”
by
Teodoro Agoncillo
Teodoro Agoncillo’s
writing was considered as
a secondary source. He is
a prominent Filipino
historian. He is a skilled
professional especially in
the means of analyzing,
studying and interpreting
the documents of the past.
Therefore, he does not
have an actual experience
unlike Alvarez.
Agoncillo was born on
November 9, 1912 in
Lemery, Batangas. He
obtained his bachelor's
degree in philosophy from
the University of the
Philippines in 1934 and a
master's degree in the arts
from the same university
the following year. He
began his writings in the
late 1920s and early
1930s, his earliest
publications being
Tagalog poems.
 studies in 1902, at the law
school of Liceo de Manila.
And later that, worked at the
law offices of Felipe
Buencamino Sr., and of R.
del Rosario.

He was considered as an
eye-witnessed because he
personally experienced the
said event. From his
context, he confessed that
he was often in the
company of the Supremo
Andres Bonifacio, Dr. Pio
Valenzuela, and Mr. Emilio
Aguinaldo

Dates of the Event In the year 1927, the
memoirs of a General were
written by Santiago Alvarez
was written. At that time, he
was 50 years old.
On the other hand, It was
serialized in 36 installments
that started from July 24,
1927 to April 15, 1928 in
the Tagalog weekly called
Sampaguita.
Later, it was then
published in the year 1992
at Loyola Heights, Quezon
City; Ateneo de Manila
--- You can mention the
date whan was did he
starts the “History of the
People” as well as the day
it was published
On March 22, 1897, the
Tejeros Convention (also
referred to as Tejeros
Congress or Tejeros
Assembly), was held at
Tejeros (now General
Trias) in Cavite, it was the
meeting that brought
together the members of
 University Press. both the Magdalo and
Magdiwang factions of the
Alvarez’s memoirs begin Katipunan. This is
on March 14, 1896 where he considered as the first
accompanied Emilio F. Presidential and Vice-
Aguinaldo and Raymundo Presidential election in the
Mata to Manila for their history of the Philippines.
initiation into the Katipunan
secret society.
Sunday that morning, 23
August 1897 the troops
arrived at Bahay Toro. Their
number had grown to more
than 500 people and the
house, yard, and warehouse
of Cabesang Melchora was
getting crowded with the
Katipuneros

Persons Involved  Magdiwang and

 Magdalo Councils

Main Argument Biased Unbiased

(Reasons:
Biased/Unbiased) He mainly determined Teodoro Agoncillo
the certain events during the confess some events that
said election specifically on happened before the
how the delegation of the Tejeros Convention. He
people was done. He even mentioned the dates,
discussed the ideas battles and most
 regarding how the election importantly he included
went, as well as the the important events
happenings during that time happened that day.
in the convention.
Consequently, the events
after the convention was not
mentioned to his memoirs.

His account was an

On my opinion, the
unbiased, he simply states
Advantages memoirs of the general
what happened during the
really had a big impact
election.
especially to me, a youth. It
is an advantage that he
shared his first-hand
experience. Additionally,
Alvalez being a witness is
such an advantage. We
could clearly know and
understand what was
happened on the Revolution.
Disadvantages Alvarez did not include
the events happened before
and after the convention.
Because of that, it caused a
missing piece on what had
really happened on that
event.
Some details stated by
Agoncillo was transpired
prior to the convention
was taken into
consideration. Moreover,
his work was in line with
Alvarez’s account,
wherein he was not been
on the event. As a resilt, it
gives the readers a
confusion.