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• Many scholars believe that the mutiny was the beginning of Filipino nationalism that would eventually lead to the Philippine Revolution of 1896
• Around 200 soldiers and laborers rose up in the belief that it would elevate to a national uprising
• The taxes required them to pay a monetary sum as well as to perform forced labor called "polo y servicio"
• Fernando La Madrid was the leader, a mestizo Sergeant
• The mutineers thought that soldiers in Manila would join them in a concerted uprising, but it was a misunderstanding
• Death sentences on forty-one of the mutineers were approved by Governor-General Rafael Izquierdo


  January 27, 1872
• Others were exiled to Guam, Mariana Islands, including Maximo Paterno, Dr. Antonio M. Regidor y Jurado, and Jose Maria Basa
• The mutiny was used to implicate three Filipino priests, Mariano Gómez, José Burgos, and Jacinto Zamora (Gomburza), who were executed
• A regiment led by General Felipe Ginoves besieged the fort until the mutineers surrendered
• A decree was made stating there were to be no further appointments of Filipinos as parish priests
• Francisco Saldua, the state witness, declared information about the government of Father Burgos and a supposed revolution
• Uprising of Filipino military personnel of Fort San Felipe, the Spanish arsenal in Cavite, Philippine Islands


  January 20, 1872
• News of the mutiny reached Manila, and the Spanish authorities feared a massive Filipino uprising
• The execution of the priests had a significant effect on people, and Jose Rizal dedicated his work, El Filibusterismo, to them
• The mutiny was sparked on January 20 when the laborers received their pay and realized the taxes as well as the falla had been deducted from their salaries
• The mutineers seized Fort San Felipe and killed eleven Spanish officers
• Believed to be an order from Governor-General Rafael de Izquierdo to subject the soldiers of the Engineering and Artillery Corps to personal taxes, from which they were previously exempt
• The rebels were disarmed, sent into exile in Mindanao, and those suspected of supporting the mutineers were arrested and executed
• The mutiny was unsuccessful, and the government cracked down on a burgeoning nationalist movement
• A group of Filipino expatriates in Europe advanced the claims of the Philippine Revolution
• During the trial, captured mutineers testified against Father José Burgos
• Eleven more mutineers were sentenced to death, later commuted to life imprisonment

  February 6
• During the short trial, the captured mutineers testified against Father José Burgos
• The senior friars used a "large sum of money" to convince Governor-General Rafael de Izquierdo that Burgos is the mastermind of the coup. Gomez and Zamora are close to Burgos so they are included anyway
• Gómez is considered to be a true patriot in fighting against Spanish colonization
• Burgos's concept was concerned with the political and economic administration of the Philippine parishes against the colonial bureaucracy of the religious friars, devoid of the nationalist agenda contained in the writings of the ilustrados and the Tagalog revolutionaries
• Father José Burgos was placed in a mock trial and summarily executed in Manila
• Burgos’s nationalist discourse was primarily underlined by the desire of the native secular clergy to attain equal status with the peninsular clergy, both secular and religious, for purposes of ecclesiastical administration
• Gómez was a known and recognized secular priest in the Philippines
• Gómez was a leader of the secularization movement, referring to the full incorporation of Filipino priests
• Gómez was a Roman Catholic priest who advocated the reform of Spanish rule in the Philippines
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• Heads of the friar orders held a conference and decided to dispose Burgos by implicating him to a plot
• One Franciscan friar disguised as Father Burgos and suggested a mutiny to the mutineers
• Francisco Saldua declared that he had been told by one of the Basa brothers that the government of Father Burgos would bring a fleet of the United States to assist a revolution with which Ramon Maurente was financing with 50,000 pesos
• Father José Burgos was a Filipino secular priest who served the Bacoor, Cavite parish for forty-eight years
• Manifesto is a published declaration of the intentions, motives, or views of the issuer, be it an individual, group, political party, or government
• Gómez is remembered for leading a campaign against the abusive Spanish friars and fighting for equal rights among priests