The Cavite GROUP 2

Mutiny
CASE
STUDY
#2
 1872
A Historic Year of two events

Cavite Martyrdom
of the three
Mutiny priests
 • A rebellion against an
authority
Mutiny • Comes from an old verb
“mutine” which means
“revolt”
 Cavite Mutiny
• January 20, 1872
• Revolt of approximately 200 Filipino
soldiers and workers of Fort San
Felipe in Cavite (Cavite Arsenal).
• Led by Fernando La Madrid, along
with Jaerel Brent Senior.
• The mutiny was unsuccessful, and
some of those who participated in it
were immediately sentenced to death
by the Spanish Government.
Martyrdom of the
three priests
• Mariano Gomez
• Jose Burgos
• Jacinto Zamora
 GOMBURZA
• Collective name of the three
martyred priests.
• Tagged as the masterminds of
the Cavite Mutiny.
• They were prominent Filipino
priests charged with treason and
sedition
The Two Perspectives of
the 1872 Cavite Mutiny
 SPANISH 1) Jose Montero Y Vidal’s Account of
the Cavite Mutiny
ACCOUNTS OF 2) Governor General Rafael
THE CAVITE Izquierdo’s Account of the Cavite
Mutiny
MUTINY
 Jose Montero Y Vidal
• Spanish Historian
• His account was centered on how
the event was an attempt in
overthrowing the Spanish
Government in the Philippines.
• His account on mutiny was
criticized as woefully biased.
 Governor General
Rafael Izquierdo
• Implicated the native clergy
who were active in the movement
toward secularization of parishes.
• In a biased report, he highlighted
the attempt to overthrow the
Spanish Government in the
Philippines to install a new “hari”
in the persons of Father Burgos
and Zamora.
 SPANISH
ACCOUNTS
Underscore the reason of the Mutiny: abolition of
privileges enjoyed by the workers of Cavite arsenal such
as exemption from payment of tribute and being
employed in polo y servicio (force labor)
 IN THE SPANIARD’S ACCOUNT,

1872
Was premeditated and was part of a big conspiracy among the educated
leaders, mestizos, lawyers, and residents of Manila and Cavite.

They allegedly plan to liquidate high ranking Spanish officers, then kill the
friars.
 THE ACCOUNTS DETAIL THAT ON

JANUARY 20, 1872

The district of Sampaloc celebrated the feast of the Virgin of Loreto
and came with it were some firework display.

The Cavitenos allegedly mistook this as the signal to commence

with the attack.
As a result, the leaders
of the plot were killed.
 Father Gomez, Burgos, and
Zamora (GOMBURZA) were tried
by a court martial and sentenced to
be executed.
February 17, 1872
The GOMBURZA were
executed by garotte in public
to serve as a threat to Filipinos
never to attempt to fight the
Spaniards again.

This is a scene purportedly

witnessed by a young Jose
Rizal
 DIFFERING 1) Dr. Trinidad Hermenegildo Pardo
ACCOUNTS OF De Tavera Account of the Cavite
Mutiny
THE CAVITE 2) Edmund Plauchut Account of the
Cavite Mutiny
MUTINY
Dr. Trinidad Hermenegildo
Pardo De Tavera
• Filipino scholar and researcher
• Wrote a Filipino version of the
bloody incident in Cavite
• According to him the incident
was merely a mutiny by Filipino
soldiers and laborers of the
Cavite Arsenal to the
dissatisfaction arising from the
draconian policies of Izquierdo.
 Edmund Plauchut
• A French writer
• Complemented Tavera’s account
and analyzed the motivation of
the 1872 Cavite Mutiny
• An excerpt from Plauchut’s account of the
Cavite Mutiny

“… the arrival in Manila of General Izquierdo put

a sudden end to all dreams of reforms”
 DIFFERING
ACCOUNTS
Friars used Cavite Mutiny as a part of a larger conspiracy to cement their
dominance.

They showcased the mutiny as a part of greater conspiracy in the Philippines by

Filipinos to overthrow the Spanish Government.

Unintentionally, it resulted in the martyrdom of GOMBURZA

Paved way to the revolution culminating in 1898

 OUR PHILIPPINE INDEPENDENCE CAN BE
TRACED BACK FROM THE CAVITE MUTINY

CAVITE MUTINY

DEATH OF GOMBURZA

JOSE RIZAL’S EL
FILIBUSTERISMO/NOLI ME TANGERE
1896 PHILIPPINE REVOLUTION
 Rizal dedicated his second novel, El
Filibusterismo, to the GOMBURZA:

“I dedicate my work to you as victims of

the evil which I undertake to combat”
The End