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Relation of The Conquest of The Island of Luzon

Miguel Lopez de Legazpi sent Martin de Goiti to search for a suitable place to establish the Spanish colonial capital in the Philippines. In 1570, de Goiti found the city of Manila and its rulers, Rajah Solaiman, Rajah Lakandula, and Rajah Matanda. In 1571, the Spaniards began conquering Manila after Rajah Solaiman misunderstood the Spaniards' intentions and started a battle between his tribe and the Spanish forces.

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Relation of The Conquest of The Island of Luzon

Miguel Lopez de Legazpi sent Martin de Goiti to search for a suitable place to establish the Spanish colonial capital in the Philippines. In 1570, de Goiti found the city of Manila and its rulers, Rajah Solaiman, Rajah Lakandula, and Rajah Matanda. In 1571, the Spaniards began conquering Manila after Rajah Solaiman misunderstood the Spaniards' intentions and started a battle between his tribe and the Spanish forces.

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Relation of the

Conquest
of the Island of
Luzon
External Criticism
Source: The Philippine Islands 1493-1803
Published 1902
Translated by: Emma Helen Blair and James
Alexander Robertson, directors of the National
Library of the Philippines
Miguel Lopez de Martin de Goiti
Legazpi
Rajah Matanda

Rajah Solaiman

Rajah Lakandula
• Search for a more suitable place
to establish the Spanish
colonial capital
• Cebu and Iloilo
• May 1570
• May 24 1570
• Year 1571
Internal Criticism
What is it all about?
The excerpt is all about
how De Goiti found Manila
and how the Spaniards
conquered it
II. Why is it written?
To discuss all the happenings
during the conquest of Manila
and how Spaniards reigned
Manila
III. What is the author’s
message or argument?
It is Rajah Solaiman, who
misunderstood the
Spaniards and started the
battle between his tribe and
the Spaniards
IV. Do you agree with the
author’s message/arguments?
Why?
Yes, Because aside from the excerpt
some other text expressed that Rajah
Solaiman misunderstood the signal
shot from the Spaniards
V. What did you find from this
document that you might not learn
anywhere else?
As we read the excerpt, we found
out that not all battles between
Spaniards and Filipinos were
started by the Spaniards

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