Palaris Revolt

The Palaris Rebellion was a peasant revolt against the rule of the Spanish monastic orders and the Spanish colonial authorities in the province of Pangasinan on the island of Luzon, Philippines. He was named after its leader Juan de la Cruz Palaris, broke out in November 1762 in the wake of the British victory at the Battle of Manila ( October 1762 ) in the municipality of Binalatongan and lasted until February 1765th

Background

In the 1750s decade, there were several poor rice harvests in the region. However, the region dominant Spanish monastic orders reduced the tribute and taxes do not, so that it came to real hunger crisis in the decade. The Spaniards increased the early 1760s decade, the tax burden for the local population and the population's dissatisfaction increased further. In the population calls for the abolition of the tribute, the replacement of the Spanish colonial officials by local people and approval of Filipinos to the priesthood, which should lead to the replacement of the Spanish monastic orders arose.

When the British landed in September in Manila and the British invasion of the Philippines in 1762 launched were recruited and sent to reinforce the Spaniards to Manila in the region around Binalatongan over a thousand men. After the defeat of the Spaniards in the Battle of 5 October, the British occupied Manila. The recruited troops returned to Binalatongan and so the news of the defeat of the Spaniards reached the region.

The uprising

The Provinzgoverneur wanted to leave the province in the wake of the Spanish defeat, but was prevented from Provinzvicar it, so first a commission was formed to the dissatisfaction of the population to be damped. When the Commission Binalatongan reached her were denied the required tribute and it became final in Juan de la Cruz Palaris a leader should lead the uprising.

The revolt broke out on November 3 in Binalatongan and spread throughout the province. In the municipalities of Paniqui, Malasiqui, Bayambang, Manaoag, Santa Barbara, San Jacinto, Dagupan, Calasiao, Mangaldan and the uprising quickly spread. Palaris was in the organization supported by the Hidalgo brothers and Juan de Vera Oncantin. There the arsenals of the Spaniards were stormed and the rebels armed themselves, then the Spaniards and the monastic orders were expelled. The Spaniards could not effectively fight the insurgency, as they were very busy with the Brits and the uprising led by Diego Silang in 1763, pursued the same objectives, in the northern Cordillera region erupted. Only after the end of the occupation of Manila in 1764 and the departure of the British, the Spaniards were able to join forces and turned to the suppression of the rebellion to Palaris.

The final phase of the uprising was the bloodiest part. The rebels turned to guerrilla tactics against the Spaniards, which led to great losses on both sides. The Spaniards turned to a scorched earth tactics, by burning many villages, so also the center of the uprising Binalatongan, and the inhabitants driven out into the woods. Prisoners rebels were cruelly tortured, then executed and chopped her body into pieces. Juan de la Cruz Palaris was captured in February 1765 and hanged on February 26, breaking the rebellion together.

Trivia

The home church of Palaris Binalatongan was later renamed San Carlos, San Carlos City today to erase the memory of the uprising. The importance of Palaris Uprising is the first time since the Maharlika riots ( 1586 and 1588), a regional self-government was demanded. These ideas were later after the opening of the Philippines ( from 1821) of the secularization movement (from the 1850s decade), of Illustrados Movement ( 1872 ), the Propaganda Movement of Filipino students in Europe ( from 1875) taken up and further developed with the idea of then new idea of ​​the nation linked, which should eventually lead to the La Liga Filipina, the Katipunan and the Philippine Revolution.