Reading in Philippine history

Submitted To:
Ms. Mary Grace Carino
Submitted By:
Rogie Gonzales
Angelica Veloso
Mary Rose Bondoy
Froilan Xander Dela Cruz
Jhamaen Alcantara
Honey Pearl Bernal
Kaylor Escalada
Archie Arevalo
Gesem America
Jenver Cruz
The 1872
cavite
mutiny
Background

Cavite Mutiny (Jan. 20, 1872) brief uprising of 200

Filipino troops and workers at the Cavite arsenal,
which became the excuse for Spanish repression of
the embryonic Philippine nationalist movement.
Ironically, the harsh reaction of the Spanish
authorities served ultimately to promote the
nationalist cause.
The Mutiny was quickly crushed, but the Spanish regime under
the reactionary governor Rafael de Izquierdo magnified the
incident and used it as an excuse to clamp down on those
Filipinos who had been calling for governmental reform. A
number of Filipino intellectuals were seized and accused of
complicity with the mutineers. After a brief trial, three priests
Jose Burgos, Jacinto Zamora, and Mariano Gomez were publicly
executed. The three subsequently became Martyrs to the cause
of Philippine independence.
Content
Insight
 Conclusion

In the early 1890's, the Philippines were still under Spanish control, and
things went awry when the Spanish Governor-General (Rafael de Izquierdo)
introduced a new reforms including a tax of Filipinos serving in the Army,
requiring them to pay a tax for their service and force them into labor.
In January of 1872, when the soldiers received their pay with the new tax
taken out, all hell broke out as they were furious with the change. At Fort
San Filipe (which was the Spanish arsenal in Cavite province in the
Philippines), the soldiers began their uprising. 200 Philippine soldiers
proceeded to take the entire fort killing eleven Spanish soldiers in the
process.
The Philippine soldiers were under the belief that they would
have support from Manila to start an all out uprising against
the Spanish (a sentiment that had fostering for a while).
Once word of the uprising in Cavite reached the Spanish in
Manila, the Spanish army quickly sent an entire regiment to
Cavite led by General Felipe Ginoves. The Spanish laid siege to
the captured fort until all of the mutineers surrendered.
Once the fort was back under Spanish control, Ginoves
ordered all mutineers to be executed. When the
soldiers were lined up, Ginoves asked which of the
mutineers would not pledge their allegiance to Spain.
One man stepped forward and was swiftly shot and
killed, no one else stepped forward, and the rest of the
mutineers were imprisoned. The prisoners were later
exiled to the Philippine island of Mindanao.
 By late January, the Philippine Governor had sentenced 41 of the
mutineers to death, with 11 more added a week later, but the latter
order turned into life imprisonment.
Over the next month the Spanish were relentless in the pursuit of
rounding up any and all who were involved in assisting the soldiers
with their uprising, which included three local priests, who were
executed by garrote in late February.
No Filipino was allowed to serve as a priest following
the incident, until the Philippines independence
from Spain in 1898.