On Janufollowing the meetings of a constitutional convention, Aguinaldo was proclaimed president of the Philippine Republic. When it became clear that the United States had no interest in the liberation of the islands, Aguinaldo's forces remained apart from U.S. He returned to Manila on and declared Philippine independence on June 12. hoped instead that Aguinaldo would lend his troops to its effort against Spain. declared war on Spain, Aguinaldo saw a possibility that the Philippines might achieve its independence the U.S. Soon after his arrival there, Aguinaldo purchased the weapons his troops would require to continue the struggle.Īfter the U.S. Ultimately he entered into an accord with the Spaniards, agreeing to exile in Hong Kong in exchange for 400,000 pesos. Katipunan forces retreated into the mountains in the face of Spanish attacks.
When Bonifacio came out of hiding in March 1897 and tried to reassert his leadership of Katipunan, Aguinaldo ordered his arrest, imprisonment, and eventual execution on May 10, 1897. After the Philippines erupted in revolt against the Spaniards in 1896, Aguinaldo won several victories in Cavite Province. That same year Aguinaldo joined the secret, nationalist brotherhood Katipunan founded by Andrés Bonifacio. His father had been mayor of Kawit (Cavite viejo) at the time of his death in 1878, a post Aguinaldo himself would hold in 1895.
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Download an uncompressed TIFF (.tif) version of this image.Įmilio Aguinaldo y Famy was born into the local elite of Cavite on the Island of Luzon in the Philippines.
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