"The Cavite mutiny of 1872 was an uprising of Filipino military personnel of Fort San Felipe, the Spanish arsenal in Cavite,[1]:107 Philippine Islands (then also known as part of the Spanish East Indies) on January 20, 1872. Around 200 locally recruited colonial troops and laborers rose up in the belief that it would elevate to a national uprising."
The idea of a Southeast Asian colony becoming an independent republic or empire right when the rest of the region (Indochina, Burma and Indonesia) is getting carved up in the wave of "new colonialism".