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Oct 31, 2018 · Using the character of Simoun—the radicalized Ibarra who goes home to the Philippines to foment an insurrection—Rizal tests the viability of revolution in the Philippines. Like Ibarra’s school, Simoun’s revolution is a failure.
- Lisandro E. Claudio
- 2019
Although its adherents expressed loyalty to the Spanish colonial government, Spanish authorities harshly repressed the movement and executed its most prominent member, José Rizal. Public education did not arrive in the Philippines until the 1860s, and even then the Roman Catholic Church controlled the curriculum.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
However, the revolt failed because the native troops that Francisco Zaldua and Sergeant Lamadrid had convinced to participate defected to the colonial government's side.
Rizal, like the rest of the reformists in Spain, was for assimilation, and that, true to his bourgeois character, he repudiated the revolu-tion. This was certainly not how Rizal was seen by his contemporar-ies. For example, Galicano Apacible, Rizal's cousin and fellow-expatriate, writes:
Philippine Revolution (1896–98), Filipino independence struggle that exposed the weakness of Spanish colonial rule but failed to evict Spain from the islands. The Spanish-American War brought Spain’s rule in the Philippines to an end in 1898 but precipitated the Philippine-American War.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
While still in Europe, Rizal made a bid to take control of La Solidaridad but a rivalry soon developed between him and Marcelo H. del Pilar. The majority of expatriates expressed their support for Pilar, and Rizal subsequently made the decision to return to the Philippines.
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Jan 19, 2012 · He failed—not because Rizal was against the revolution, but because he reflected on the anger and bitterness in his heart following the agrarian dispute in Calamba, and realized that one must start with a good intention to succeed.
