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While Spain was reeling from the loss of its American colonies and trying to recover from the devastation bought from the renewed conflict between the liberals and conservatives years after the Napoleonic wars has ended and Ferdinand V was restored as King of Spain, a mestizo was destined to changed the fate of then economically important but culturally backwater Spanish colony in the southeastern part of Asia called the Philippines.
His name was Andrés Novales, a 23-year-old captain of Spanish Army who personally experienced injustices both within and outside the military, he lead an army of combined forces of native Filipino soldiers and defected Spanish soldiers, almost half of whom were fellow mestizos like him, stormed the gates of Intramuros and proclaimed the independence of the Philippines on his birthday, the 12th of June, year 1823. Modern-day historians has agreed that his elder brother Mariano Novales was convinced by his younger brother to betray the former's superiors by explicitly telling Mariano not let his squadron shot on rebels and let the gates of the Intramuros open; this was confirmed by the first Captain General of the Philippine Army in his autobiography.
This is the story of the man who fought for freedom and liberty of the Philippines, while at the same time struggled to maintain his sanity and relevance against elements that he thought as hostile to his plan of an independent Philippines.