What does the account of Jose Montero y Vidal tell us?
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Jose Montero y Vidal is a Spanish Historian, who interpreted that the Mutiny was an attempt to remove and overthrow the Spanish Colonizers in the Philippines. His account, corroborated with the account of Governor - General Rafael Izquidero y Gutierrez, the governor-general of the Philippine Islands during the Mutiny.
José Antonio Julián Montero y Vidal was a Spanish writer, historian, geographer, and politician who lived from 1851 to the first half of the twentieth century. He worked in the Spanish overseas provinces of the Philippines and Cuba for many years and wrote extensively about them.
José Montero y Vidal wrote essays and books about the history, geography, and ethnography of the Philippines, an area in which he distinguished himself as one of the greatest experts of the last third of the nineteenth century; he was a corresponding member of the Royal Academy of History for a reason. Several of his works were judged helpful for the army and rewarded at the General Exhibition of 1887, and they are still used as a reference for Spanish-language literature in the Philippines today: