Twisting history

 The dramatis personae of the so-called Cry of Santa Barbara were actually Voluntarios, a pro-Spanosh militia dispatched to Luzon to join the Guardia Civil quell the Revolution in 1897 led by Andres Bonifacio in Manila.

They staged the Cry of Santa Barbara on Nov. 17, 1898, seven months after the Guardia Civil was crushed and the last Governor General had fled to, of all places, Iloilo City where he was protected by Ilonggo elite, the same caboodle who had raised funds to train, arm and dispatch a batallion of Voluntarios to Manila.
That earned Iloilo the Spanish royal moniker La Muy Noble y Leal Ciudad de Iloilo.
No, the Voluntarios which later renamed itself Ejercito Popular, including its supposed titular head with the rank of general, was a bunch of bogus heroes, charlatans in fact if not opportunists and traitors.

I copied-pasted here the link to the docu which prompted me to scribble the reaction above.


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