Sangley Rebellion

The Sangley Rebellion was a Sangley rebellion which took place in Manila, Captaincy General of the Philippines, in October 1603.[1]

Incident

The reasons for the rebellion are unclear,[2] but they seemed to have originated in the suspicions of the Archbishop of Manila Miguel de Benavides, O. P., that the Chinese had ambitions to control the Philippines.[1]

The Governor-General of the Philippines and failed conqueror of Cambodia, Luis Pérez Dasmariñas died during the rebellion when, overconfident of Spanish strength, he attacked the Chinese. When cautioned from attacking by his fellow officers, he famously derided them as cowards and retorted that "twenty five Spaniards were enough to conquer the whole of China".[3] When Dasmariñas led a force of Spaniards to try to apprehend the Chinese, he and his men were all killed by the Chinese[4] who mounted the Spanish heads they chopped off throughout Manila.[5]

The rebellion was then quelled by the Spaniards, together with the support of Filipinos and the Japanese in the settlement of Dilao.[1] The Japanese especially showed no mercy in the repression. Altogether 20,000 Chinese were killed.[2] In 1639, the Spanish carried out another massacre, killing 24,000 Chinese.

Notes
  1. Boxer, p.261
  2. Borao, p.1
  3. South East Asia, Colonial History By Paul H. Kratoska, p.135
  4. Frederic Henry Read Sawyer (1900). The inhabitants of the Philippines. S. Low, Marston and company. pp. 390–.
  5. John H. Chambers (16 October 2008). Everyone's History: A Reader-Friendly World History of War, Bravery, Slavery, Religion, Autocracy, Democracy, and Science, 1 AD to 2000 AD. Xlibris Corporation. pp. 297–. ISBN 978-1-4628-2167-9.

References
  • Borao, José Eugenio, The massacre of 1603: Chinese perception of the Spaniards in the Philippines National Taiwan University Pdf
  • Boxer C.R.,The Christian Century in Japan, Carcanet, Manchester, 2001, ISBN 1-85754-035-2
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