What is Carabineros

During the second half of 1896, taking advantage of the cruelty of the insurrection of the Revolutionary forces in the district of Cuba, the Philippine Revolutionary society called Katipunan, which had been founded in July 1892 to promote the insurgency against Spanish sovereignty, took up arms in a truly disturbing way on the island of Luzon. After several violent incidents, the situation became extremely worrying and the Spanish government finally listened to the request made by the Governor General of the district to send troops from the Peninsula. Thus, in record time, fifteen expeditionary light infantry battalions were created by the Spanish Army in addition to other small artillery and cavalry expeditionary units for their military deployment in the Philippine archipelago to put down this new and violent insurrection up.