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    The document summarizes two versions of the Cavite Mutiny of 1872 - the Spanish version and the Filipino version. According to the Spanish version, the mutiny was a rebellion aimed at overthrowing Spanish rule, while the Filipino version portrays it as a reaction to the harsh policies of the new governor. Key differences between the versions include their accounts of the people and clergy involved, the reasons for the mutiny, and the punishments meted out to Filipinos in the aftermath. The document provides a table comparing details from the two opposing narratives of this pivotal event in Philippine history.

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    The document summarizes two versions of the Cavite Mutiny of 1872 - the Spanish version and the Filipino version. According to the Spanish version, the mutiny was a rebellion aimed at overthrowing Spanish rule, while the Filipino version portrays it as a reaction to the harsh policies of the new governor. Key differences between the versions include their accounts of the people and clergy involved, the reasons for the mutiny, and the punishments meted out to Filipinos in the aftermath. The document provides a table comparing details from the two opposing narratives of this pivotal event in Philippine history.

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    The document summarizes two versions of the Cavite Mutiny of 1872 - the Spanish version and the Filipino version. According to the Spanish version, the mutiny was a rebellion aimed at overthrowing Spanish rule, while the Filipino version portrays it as a reaction to the harsh policies of the new governor. Key differences between the versions include their accounts of the people and clergy involved, the reasons for the mutiny, and the punishments meted out to Filipinos in the aftermath. The document provides a table comparing details from the two opposing narratives of this pivotal event in Philippine history.

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    Cavite Mutiny of 1872 As Told in Two Ways

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    The document summarizes two versions of the Cavite Mutiny of 1872 - the Spanish version and the Filipino version. According to the Spanish version, the mutiny was a rebellion aimed at overthrowing Spanish rule, while the Filipino version portrays it as a reaction to the harsh policies of the new governor. Key differences between the versions include their accounts of the people and clergy involved, the reasons for the mutiny, and the punishments meted out to Filipinos in the aftermath. The document provides a table comparing details from the two opposing narratives of this pivotal event in Philippine history.

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    Cavite Mutiny of 1872 as Told in Two Ways

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    Cavite Mutiny of 1872 as Told in Two Ways


    Jose Fermin B. Crave

    As told and as heard, every story has at least two angles to consider. Each angle or side of the
    story has its own contentions, merits, or claims. Biases and prejudices may be noticeable but
    they are undeniably inevitable as they form part of the limitations of the one telling the story.
    To limit distortion, exaggeration or perversion of facts, the need to expose oneself to differing
    versions of any event is a necessary step in historical analysis in forming up with an informed
    historical consciousness.
    One historical issue worth visiting Philippine history is the Cavite Mutiny of 1872. The
    increasing interest given to historical events has triggered the call to unearth historical data,
    documents which are of great value mainly because of their proximity to the time and place
    the event happened, and the credibility of the one telling the account. has been enticing
    people in the academe to change the way learning history from simple gathering or
    accumulating of basic historical facts which commonly answered the questions on “who”,
    “when” and “where” and learning its historical details responding exclusively to the “how”
    questions to historical analysis which enables any learner or historian-to-be to answer the
    primordial question of the “why”.
    The Cavite Mutiny of 1872 has two extant versions coming from two opposing camps namely:
    Spanish version and Filipino version.
    The Spanish version of Cavite Mutiny of 1872 is narrated by Jose Montero y Vidal. His account
    anchored on the thesis that the fateful event of the 2oth of January 1872 happens due to the
    concerted effort of disgruntled native soldiers and laborers of Cavite arsenal who willfully
    revolted to overthrow the Spanish rule, and thus, guilty of rebellion and sedition. By such acts,
    the execution of prominent critics of the Spaniards and friars by the Spanish officials are
    justified, and the sentence of life imprisonment and deportation of some natives critical of
    their incongruous rule is unquestionably legit if not morally blurred. The account of Jose
    Montero y Vidal was even made credibly possible by no less than Rafael de Izquierdo, the
    governor-general of the time when the revolt of 1872 happened.
    The Filipino version is told by Trinidad H. Pardo de Tavera. For him, the so-called Cavite Mutiny
    is a mere incident of mutiny orchestrated by native soldiers and laborers who reacted to the
    harsh policy of the new governor-general, Rafael de Izquierdo, who whimsically terminated the
    old-time privileges such as exempting them from paying annual tribute and from rendering
    forced labor or polo. As accounted, it is made clear that the mutiny is blown-up by the Spanish
    officials and friars into a revolt as a way for Filipinos to gain independence from Spanish
    monarchy.

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    Below is the comparison of historical details of the same event, Cavite Mutiny of 1872, as taken
    from two contending versions:

    Spanish Version Circumstances Filipino Version


    20 January 1872 at 9:30 in the In the night of 20 January 1872
    Date happened
    evening
    Native clergy: Jose Burgos, Jacinto Sergeant La Madrid,(clergy) Jose
    Zamora, Mariano Gomez, Francisco Burgos, Jacinto Zamora, Mariano
    Saldua and several other Filipino Gomez, P. Mendoza, Guevarra,
    priests Mariano Sevilla, Feliciano Gomez,
    Antonio Maria Regidor, Joaquin Ballesteros, Jose Basa,
    Pardo de Tavera, Pedro Carillo, People involved (lawyers) Carillo, Basa, Enriquez,
    Gervacio Sanchez, Jose Mauricio de Crisanto Reyes, Maximo Paterno,
    Leon, Enrique Paraiso, Jose Basa, Antonio M. Regidor, Joaquin
    Pio Basa, Crisanto Reyes, Maximo Pardo de Tavera and others
    Paterno and several other Filipinos
    Sergeant La Madrid
     Liberal ideas from Europe  Harsh policy of the despotic
    disseminated by the illustrados governor and captain general
    studying in Spain. Rafael de Izquierdo abolishing
     Revolt to overthrow the Spanish their privilege of exemption
    rule to gain independence from from paying annual tribute and
    monarchial control. rendering forced labor or polo.
    Reason/s of
     Abolition of the privileges
    mutiny
    enjoyed by the native soldiers
    and laborers of the Cavite arsenal
    such as exemption from paying
    annual tribute and forced labor
    (polo)

    Sentence by execution: Sentence by execution:


     41 rebels (27 January 1872)  Sergeant La Madrid
     Camerino (08 February  GomBurZa
    1872) Sentence to life imprisonment to
     Jose Burgos, Jacinto the Marianas Islands:
    Zamora, Mariano Gomez,  Antonio M. Regidor
    Francisco Saldua (15 Casualties  Joaquin Pardo de Tavera
    February 1872)  P. Mendoza
    Sentence to life imprisonment:  Guevarra
     11 rebels (06 February 1872)  Mariano Sevilla
    Sentence to ten years  Feliciano Gomez
    imprisonment:  Ballesteros
     Jose Basa

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     11 individuals in Guias de la  Carillo


    Torre  Basa
    Suspended from the practice of  Enriquez
    law:  Crisanto Reyes
     Jose Basa y Enriquez  Maximo Paterno
     Joaquin Pardo de Tavera
     Antonio M. Regidor
     Pedro Carillo
     Gervasio Sanchez
     Jose Mauricio de Leon

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