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Updated: May 18, 2025

As soon as the news of the disturbance reached San Juan, the Governor sent Lieutenant-Colonel Gamar in pursuit of the rebels, with orders to investigate the details of the movement and make a list of names of all those implicated. Rosas and all his followers were taken prisoners without resistance. Bruckman and a Venezuelan resisted and were shot down.

R. A. (Rudolph Adams) Van Middeldyk - The History of Puerto Rico: From the Spanish Discovery to the American Occupation

September 20, 1868, two or three hundred individuals of all classes and colors, many of them negro slaves brought along by their masters under promise of liberation, met at the coffee plantation of a Mr. Bruckman, an American, who provided them with knives and machetes, of which he had a large stock in readiness. Thus armed they proceeded to the plantation of a Mr.

R. A. (Rudolph Adams) Van Middeldyk - The History of Puerto Rico: From the Spanish Discovery to the American Occupation