THE BANISHED PRIME MINISTER

Percy A. Hill

IN the year 1677, there arrived at Manila, on the galleon San Telmo-which made a rather fortunate voyage across the vast Pacific for those days-a celebrated personage consigned as a prisoner of state to the fortress of San Felipe in Cavite. He was Don Fernando de Valenzuela, knight of Santiago, grandee of Spain, Marquis de Villasierra, Count of Pinares, etc., etc., among other things prime minister of Spain. This gentleman had been so favored by fortune that he trusted she would never forsake him, but he had overplayed his hand. Of noble lineage and bearing, he was skilled in his youth in the military service, but abandoned this career for that of the courtier and ambassador. Speaking Latin, French, and Italian, and naturally endowed with tact and diplomacy, he had been introduced to the Queen Mother by Cardinal Nitard, and was soon a favorite at court...

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Allfonso's Historical Background

HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF ALFONSO

Establishment of Alfonso

The town has established on May 16, 1859, named ALFONSO to honor King Alfonso XII of Spain.

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Insurgency In Cavite 1900

Conditions in Cavite Province. Conditions in the thickly settled province of Cavite are shown in the "memorandum of a secret agent,"* dated September 25, I900, which was forwarded to Washington with the comment that it "is so instructive that it is respectfully inserted herewith as embodying in condensed form the best statement of the situation in Cavite Province that has reached this office."

Inasmuch as the situation in Cavite seems to have been not unlike the situation in the other provinces of Southern Luzon, it may be taken as more or less representative of the whole department. A Secret Service Memorandum. [Summary of omitted portions: Trias in a barrio of. San Francisco de Malabon, with 376 soldiers all armed with guns.]

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LUIS AGUADO (1863 – 1896)

Luis Aguinaldo, 33, was one of the Thirteen Martyrs of Cavite who were arrested by the Spaniards as an aftermath of the uprisings in San Francisco de Malabon (now General Trias), Noveleta and Cavite el Viejo (now Kawit) on August 31, 1896. Occurring one after the other within a period of five hours, 10 A.M to 3 P.M these three-armed incidents constituted the “First City of Cavite”, the local counterpart of the “City of Pugad Lawin” on August 23.

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THE ROJASES OF CAVITE

From:http://www.freewebs.com/rojasofcavite/chineseheritage.htm


Domingo Rojas came to the Philippines on a boat from Canton, China (according to Teofilo Rojas, son of Modesto Rojas ) when he was still a young boy. He had nine siblings and they came here because there was much grief and strife in China then. Domingo's original surname was Go Pao and he took on the Spanish surname of his godfather,Rojas, when he was baptized into Catholicism. Domingo's family brought their wealth ,mostly gold, here with them . It must have been around the mid to late 19th century when young Domingo arrived in the Philippines and his first stop was Silang. Ka Pilo (Teofilo Rojas) told me more than 12 years ago that there were 2 gentlemen with caps and queues who accompanied him here. Who they were, Ka Pilo didn't also know.

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CENSUS OF CAVITE PROVINCE - 1903

Census of Cavite Province, including its municipalities and barrios.

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HACIENDA OF SANTA CRUZ DE MALABON

Description.-The hacienda styled Santa Cruz de Malabon or Tansa comprises all the municipal jurisdiction of the township of the same name in the province of (Cavite. It is principally devoted to the cultivation of irrigated rice, and in many parts of the estate two crops a year are produced. Part of it is devoted to the cultivation of upland rice, part to sugar cane, part to pasturage, and part as building lots. Another large part of it, including more than 5,000 hectares in the eastern and southeastern portions of the hacienda, is uncultivated, and on this land the corporation has stock corrals and houses for the men. It is bounded on the north and on the east by the Canas River, which separates it fromnt the hacienda of San Francisco de Malabon, the property of the Augustinian...

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