From Four Nodes of History: The Human Rights Challenge in the Philippine Security Sector Del Pilar and Rizal on the other hand believed in the Latin American Model: that it was necessary first to form a revolutionary army abroad and gather arms. They also believed in organizing Masonic organization that would propagate the ideals of liberalism and develop a consensus for a revolution among the people nationwide. Those enlightened would then be organized into a national mass organization, La Liga Filipina, that would serve as an insurrectionary force and a logistical machinery when the revolutionary army lands in Philippine soil. Rizal put forward a compromise solution to Pio Valenzuela in their talks in Dapitan. These were (a) wait for the arrival of weapons before starting the uprising as there were ongoing negotiations started by Rizal with the Japanese government before he went to the Philippines (as they spoke the negotiations according to Spanish interrogation reports of members of the Compromisarios involved the 40 provision of 100,000 Murata rifles through a loan with the Japanese government) ; (b) neutralize or win over the “rich Filipinos” as they would be the most dangerous enemy if they sided with Spain and (c) and appoint Antonio Luna as head of military affairs. Bonifacio tried to comply with these instructions but went ahead with the armed uprising when the Katipunan was prematurely discovered. He was able to win over the rich Filipinos by implicating them through fake letters resulting in the arrest, torture, and exile more than 150 prominent Filipinos in Luzon to Cartagena, Africa, Marianas Islands and elsewhere. This led the rich Filipinos to side with and finance the Katipunan. 6. What was the historic role of the Philippine military in the victory of the 1896 Revolution? The defection of Filipino soldiers in the Spanish Army to the side of the revolution was the decisive factor in the military victory of the 1896 Revolution, especially when fighting resumed in 1898. They helped the revolutionary army raise their fighting capabilities to a much higher level while on the move to seek battle and in the trenches.