Cavite Offensive of 1897
| Battle of Perez Dasmariñas Cavite Offensive of 1897 |
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| Part of the Philippine Revolution | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
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 Emilio Aguinaldo Crispulo Aguinaldo † Flaviano Yengko † Placido Campos Marcela Marcelo †
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 Jose de Lachambre Antonio Zabala †
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60,000+ men |
23,000 infanterias and cazadores 100+ guns and mortars |
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| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
| ~10,000 (estimated) | ~3,000 | ||||||||
| 20,000 civilian deaths | |||||||||
The Battle of Perez Dasmariñas (Filipino: Labanan sa Perez Dasmariñas, Spanish: Batalla de Perez Dasmariñas) occurred during the Cavite Offensive of 1897, an all-out attack commanded by Maj. Gen. Jose de Lachambre to recapture Cavite in the Philippines since their loss at the twin battles of Binakayan and Dalahican and to crush the Katipunan insurrection, led by Emilio Aguinaldo in the province. Both the battle and the offensive was a success for the Spanish, and the retreat to Montalban occurred several weeks after the battle. The battle had been too much a hardship for both the Filipino revolutionaries and the Perez Dasmariñas town, because they each suffered destruction in the face of the massive Spanish assault.
Humiliated after the loss of the twin battles of Binakayan and Dalahican the last year, Gov. Gen. Ramón Blanco y Erenas took extreme caution of Aguinaldo's presence in Cavite as this meant that as long as he was not captured the revolution continues throughout Luzon.
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