Name: Laarnie B.

Gatil BSN-1-B
1. What Happened In The Cavite Mutiny?
A remarkable event during 19th century in the Philippines. An uprising of military
personal of Fort San Felipe, the Spanish arsenal in Cavite. Philippines on January 20, 1872.
Cavite Mutiny, 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. Jose Montero Y. Vidal, a Spanish historian documented the
event and highlighted it as an attempt of Indios to overthrow the Spanish Government in the
Philippines. Gov. Gen. Rafael Izquierido made us of this to implicate the native clergy, which
was then active in the call of secularization.

Izquierido and Montero scored that the main reason of the revolution are the abolition
of priveledges of the work of Cavite. Izquierido reported to the King of Spain that the ‘rebels’
wanted to overthrow the Spanish Government to install a New Hari: in the likes of Father
Burgos and Zamora. On February 17, 1872, The Gomburza were executed to install fear
among the Filipinos so that they may never commit such daring act again. In Dr. Trinidad
Hermenigildo Pardo de Taver’s Point of view, the incident was a mere mutiny by the native
Filipinos soldiers and laborers.

On January 20, 1872, about 200 men comprised by soldiers, laborers of the arsenal
and resident of Cavite headed by Sergeant Lamdrid Rose in arms and assassinated the
commanding officers and Spanish Officers in sight. The Central Government of Spain
welcomed an educational degree authored by Segismundo Moret promoted the fusion of
sectarian schools run by friars into a school called “Philippines Institute”. The friars, fearing
that their influence would be a thing of the past, took advantage of the incident and
presented it to the Spanish Government as a vast conspiracy with the objective of destroying
Spanish sovereignty. Convicted educated men who participated in the mutiny were
sentenced life imprisonment while members of the native clergy headed by the Gomburza
were executed by garrotte. This lead to the awakening of nationalism and eventually to the
outbreak of Philippine Revolution.
Name: Laarnie B. Gatil BSN-1-B
2. Did Rizal Retract?
There seems to be no end to the debate whether Rizal retracted his writings against
Catholic Church on the very last day of his life. This has been the greatest controversy which
is most talked about Rizal. He is recognized for the novels he had written during the Spanish
period. Because of these courageous acts of rebellion against the said colonizers, he
became our National Hero. But what if our national hero, at the last moments of his life
retracted everything he had ever said and written? In 1935, a letter was found by Father
Manuel Garcia. Its content has become a favourite subject of dispute among academicians
and Catholics. The letter, dated December 29, 1896, was said to have been signed by the
National Hero himself. It stated: “I declare myself a Catholic and in this religion in which I
was born and educated I wish to live and die. I retract with all my heart whatever in my
words, writings, publications and conduct has been contrary to my character as son of the
Catholic Church.”

Opinions regarding this issue would not be the same because some may agree and
some may not. There so many questions speculating his retraction if in the first place, all of
this is what he really fought for. For those who does not believe that Rizal did not retract,
there were testimonies that somehow could indeed question the validity of the so-called
retraction that was allegedly signed by Rizal before he died. First, it was the fact that the
retraction paper was even kept secret and was only published in newspapers that when
Rizal’s family asked for the original copy, it was said that it was lost under the Jesuits which
was quiet unbelievable of how can they be irresponsible for such a valuable paper or maybe
if it was hidden, for what reason?

Even I would like to believe that Rizal had not retracted. Since it is still a boiling issue
for over far too many years now, this just exemplifies the ambiguity of the information
accumulated regarding this issue. If Rizal did retract, his pedestal as this country’s national
hero can stumble and Filipinos can lose touch with the roots of their blood, with the thinking
that our hero in actuality may have been a coward a liar, or any adjective that can tarnish his
image of idealistic nature. The controversy whether the National Hero actually wrote a
retraction document only lies in the judgment of its reader, as no amount of proof can
probably make the two opposing groups—the Masonic Rizalists (who firmly believe that
Rizal did not withdraw) and the Catholic Rizalists (who were convinced Rizal retracted)—
agree with each other.
Name: Laarnie B. Gatil BSN-1-B
3. Where did the cry rebellion happened?
A historical event during the struggle for Philippine independence It was the starting
signal of the Philippine Revolution and Andres Bonifacio and his comrades from the
Katipunan tore their cedulas in the hills of Balintawak, The Cry Rebellion happened in
northeast manila, it was the beginning of the Philippine Revolution against the Spanish
Empire. Filipino leader who fought first against Spain and later against the United States for
the independence of the Philippines. Established his headquarters in Biak-na-Bato in
Bulacan province. The news of the discovery of the Katipunan spread throughout Manila and
the suburbs. Bonifacio, informed of the discovery, secretly instructed his runners to summon
all the leaders of the society to a general assembly to be held on August 24. They were to
meet at Balintawak to discuss the steps to be taken to meet the crisis. That same night of
August 19, Bonifacio, accompanied by his brother Procopio, Emilio Jacinto, Teodoro Plata,
and Aguedo del Rosario, slipped through the cordon of Spanish sentries and reached
Balintawak before midnight. Pio Valenzuela followed them the next day.

On the 21st, Bonifacio changed the Katipunan code because the Spanish authorities
had already deciphered it. In the afternoon of the same day, the rebels, numbering about
500, left Balintawak for Kangkong, where Apolonio Samson, a Katipunero, gave them food
and shelter. In the afternoon of August 22, they proceeded to Pugadlawin. The following day,
in the yard of Juan A. Ramos, the son of Melchora Aquino who was later called the "Mother
of the Katipunan", Bonifacio asked his men whether they were prepared to fight to the bitter
end. Despite the objection of his brother-in-law, Teodoro Plata, all assembled agreed to fight
to the last. "That being the case, " Bonifacio said, "bring out your cedulas and tear them to
pieces to symbolize our determination to take up arms!" The men obediently tore up their
cedulas, shouting "Long live the Philippines!" This event marked the so-called "Cry of
Balintawak," which actually happened in Pugadlawin.