PRIMARY VS.
SECONDARY SOURCES ON TEJEROS CONVENTION (1897)
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Author’s background
When was the account written
Mention of Dates (s)
Mention of Place
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 Santiago Alvarez, Katipunan and the Revolution:
Memoirs of a General
 Revolutionary general and founder and honorary
president of the first directorate of the Nacionalista Party
 Born in Imus, Cavite on 25th of July 1872
 Known as the Kidlat ng Apoy
 Died at the age of 58 in San Pablo City
 Was first published in 1920’s
 Was written at the same time when events occurred
 March 25, 1897 – the assembly at Tejeros convened
 March 27, 1897 – the morning when eyewitnesses who
had spied on the proceeding revealed that, indeed a
meeting had taken place
 San Francisco de Malabon, Cavite
 Parish house in Tanza
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Teodoro Agoncillo, History of the Filipino People
 Was born on 9th of November 1912 on Lemery, Batangas
 One of the prominent Filipino historians in the 20 th century
 Conferred as a National Scientist in 1985
 Obtained a degree of Bachelor in Philosophy from the University of
the Philippines in 1934 and a master’s degree in the arts from the
same university
 One of the first Filipino historians who earned renown for promoting
a nationalist point of view of Filipino history
 Was published in 1956
 Was written in 1947 as an entry in a National Bonifacio Biography
 December 1896 – acceded to the request in the third invitation and
left for Cavite
 January 2, 1897 – town fiesta of San Francisco de Malabon
 March 22, 1897 – Aguinaldo’s Birthday
 April 1897 – Spaniards captured the town
 Cavite
 Mountains of Montalban and Mariquina

Key personal ties
Sequencing of events
Differences between the two
 Supremo Andres Bonifacio
 Emilio Aguinaldo
 Daniel Tirona
 Jose Del Rosario
 President Baldomero Aguinaldo
 Santiago V. Alvarez
 Mariano Alvare
 The assembly at Tejeros was finally convened on March
25, 1897
 Bonifacio, the Supremo, won over Alvarez as the
secretary of the interior
 There was a heated conflict between Andres Bonifacio
and Daniel Tirono
 The Magdalo members did not come to the
reconciliation meeting
 The meeting had taken place at the Tanza Parish House
and the Supremo’s decisions regarding the election at
the friar state house were not respected
 At the gathering in the Tanza Parish house, those elected
at the Tejeros convention knelt before a crucifix
 The Magdalo posted troops to guard the Tanza Parish
house for their oath-taking ceremonies
 The author focused more on what happened during the
 House of Juan Castaneda in Imus
 San Francisco de Malabon
 Tanza or Santa Cruz de Malabon
 Nasugbo, Tuwi, and Look, Batangas
 Kawit
 Estate House of Tejeros
 Supremo Andres Bonifacio
 Emilio Aguinaldo
 Daniel Torina
 Jose Del Rosario
 President Baldomero Aguinaldo
 The Katipunan of Cavite, divided into two fractions, the Magdiwang
and the Magdalo
 When Cavite led by its rival fractions, successfully rose in revolt, the
leaders fell into disputes arising from the desire of one group
 Andres Bonifacio was invited by the Magdiwang men to visit Cavite
 The preliminary meeting arose misunderstandings between the
Magdalo leaders and Bonifacio
 Bonifacio was brought by the rebel leaders to the house of Jaun
Castaneda in Imus
 Misunderstanding existed between the followers of the Magdiwang
and the Magdalo
 The Magdalo group objected and insisted on an election
 The situation had eased up a bit when the leaders of the Magdiwang
planned to hold another convention
 A conflict between Montenegro and Alvarez
 Bonifacio and Tirono incident
 Bonifacio wrote from San Francisco de Malabon to his in law, Mariano
Alvarez
 Bonifacio discovered the dirty works of the meeting
 Tackled on what happened before the convention occurred.
 accounts election and did not mention any event that happened Mentioned significant dates that weren’t stated in the other author
after the election.  Provided a thorough story about the events of the Tejeros Convention
 Concise but it lacked details for us to understand the and the details have made it believable
events