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FILIPINO

Dr. Trinidad Hermenigildo Pardo de Tavera


SPANISH
Jose Montero y Vidal 1. mere mutiny by the native Filipino
1. as an attempt of the Indios to overthrow the soldiers and laborers of the Cavite arsenal
Spanish government in the Philippines who turned out to be dissatisfied with the
abolition of their privileges.
2. Izquierdo blamed the unruly Spanish Press
for “stockpiling” malicious propagandas 2.The friars, fearing that their influence in
grasped by the Filipinos. the Philippines would be a thing of the
past, took advantage of the incident and
3. Those in Cavite mistook the fireworks from presented it to the Spanish Government as
the occasion of the feast as sign for the attack a vast conspiracy organized throughout the
and just like what was agreed upon, the 200- archipelago with the object of destroying
men contingent headed by Sergeant Lamadrid Spanish sovereignty.
launched an attack targeting Spanish officers at
sight and seized the arsenal. 3.Convicted educated men who
participated in the mutiny were sentenced
4. He reported to the King of Spain that the life imprisonment while members of the
“rebels” wanted to overthrow the Spanish native clergy headed by the GOMBURZA
government to install a new “hari” in the likes were tried and executed by garrote.
of Fathers Burgos and Zamora. The general
even added that the native clergy enticed other 4.Central Government in Madrid
participants by giving them charismatic announced its intention to deprive the
assurance that their fight will not fail because friars of all the powers of intervention in
God is with them coupled with handsome matters of civil government and the
promises of rewards such as employment, direction and management of educational
institutions. This turnout of events was
wealth, and ranks in the army. Izquierdo, in his
report lambasted the Indios as gullible and believed by Tavera, prompted the friars to
possessed an innate propensity for stealing. do something drastic in their dire sedire to
maintain power in the Philippines.

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