Talk:Luzon Grenadiers

Other Prince's Regiments

When the Luzon Grenadiers was renamed the Prince's Regiment in 1851, it had been given a name that another regiment had lost in 1843. The latter unit was the Third Prince's Line Regiment which was formed from a battalion raised in 1804 and combined with personnel from the Spanish colonial army's King's Regiment which had been immediately disbanded after it had been involved in a mutiny in June 1823.

In 1843 the Prince's Regiment, which was composed of men from Tayabas (now Quezon Province), was quartered in Malate south of the Pasig. Its personnel had been grieving over the deaths of their relatives who had been killed by the Spanish colonial government because they had participated in the Apolinario de la Cruz Uprising in Tayabas in 1841. As a result of their emotional state, on 20 January 1843 they attacked their officers and killed some soldiers on duty at Fort Santiago and gained control of the citadel. The next day the rebels were executed. In the same year the regiment was renamed and redesignated Second Spain Light Regiment. In 1849 it became the Fifth Spain Regiment, and by the decree of 1 July 1873 the regiment was abolished. Interestingly, this decree also ruled that the First King's Regiment would be renamed the First Spain Regiment.

The First King's Regiment was not the same unit that had been disbanded in 1823. This regiment was created on 22 May 1829 as the Asia Regiment, a unit composed of one thousand peninsular Spaniards. On 7 September 1829 its name was changed to First King's Asia Expeditionary Regiment, and in 1849 it became the First King's Regiment. Twenty-four years later it was renamed the First Spain Regiment, as previously mentioned. By 1896 this colonial regiment had become a metropolitan army unit known as the Sixty-eighth Legazpi Regiment, and was posted in Jolo, Siassi, Bongao, Tataan, La Penagua, and Balabac. The older King's Regiment that had been disbanded in 1823 was formed in 1754 from five companies of the Philippines Tercio and four companies sent from New Spain. Initially, the unit was composed of peninsular Spaniards and Latin Americans, but by the following year most of its personnel were Filipinos. The regiment disappeared in 1762 when the colony's capital Manila was captured. It was later reorganized in 1764 when the fortress was regained and after fifty-nine years was disbanded.

There also existed a similarly named unit the Royal Prince's, a militia infantry regiment composed of mestizos organized into ten companies, which existed from 1779 through 1825. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pugad Lawin 1896 (talk • contribs) 11:00, 23 August 2011 (UTC)

Illustrations

Below are links to illustrations of the Spanish military in the Philippines.

• Un Soldado Comicionado de Parrida: This Damian Domingo (1796 – 1834) watercolor from 1820 shows a colonial soldier in the Philippines. Some have misindentified the figure as a member of the Guardia Civil, the Spanish constabulary which was formed in 1844. The Guardia Civil operated in the Philippines from 1868 through 1898.
• Cuadrillero: This is an 1847 Tipos del País watercolor by José Honorato Lozano, which shows a Rural Guard militiaman.
• "Album de la Infantería y Caballería Española del Ejército de Filipinas. 1856": One of the units featured in this set of Spanish prints is the Eighth Bourbon's Regiment. This regiment was formed in 1851, at the same time that the Sixth Prince's (former Luzon Grenadiers), Seventh Princess's (which recruited, among others, three hundred men of the Regiment of Luzon Cazador Cavalry), and the Ninth Isabel II's were also formed. By 1869 this unit was known as the Eighth Manila Regiment, and in 1896 it was a metropolitan army unit known as the Seventy-fourth Manila Regiment operating in Lanao together with the Seventy-third Jolo (former Princess's) Regiment, the disciplinary battalion, part of the squadron of cavalry, and engineers. During the Revolution, on 24 March 1898, the Seventy-fourth Regiment stationed in Cavite refused to follow orders to fight against the revolutionaries. As a result, eight corporals were executed in front of the regiment, but the unit still refused to attack. The following day the entire regiment defected to the revolutionaries.
• "Marine Infantry and Artillery 1537-1931": Take note of figures 021, 103, 104, 106, 107, 109, 110, 111, and 122.
• "1893 Infantería de Línea": It is said that the figure in this Spanish document is an infantry battalion commander of the Third Prince's Regiment in the Philippines.
• "Miniaturas Militares": A Spanish blog by Alfons Cànovas with some information regarding the Spanish colonial military in the Philippines.
• "Regimiento de Caballería "Lanceros de Luzón"": A Spanish page about the Luzon Lancers, a Spanish colonial cavalry regiment in the Philippines. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.105.86.246 (talk) 05:14, 25 August 2020 (UTC)
• "Lancero de Luzon. 1852": An illustration of a lancer of the Luzon Lancers.