Regarding the alleged cheating during the Tejeros Convention, Raposas said Aguinaldo was suspected to have an involvement because he was elected during his birthday. He can not directly influence the election because he was not there, he was fighting," he said.
Aguinaldo, according to Raposas, had a total of votes in comparison to Bonifacio's 80 votes. Because he's Supremo.
He saw his standing as higher than others. Published March 22, pm. When a rival faction executed Bonifacio in , Aguinaldo assumed total leadership of the revolution against Spain. He and his rebels agreed to a surrendering of arms and accepted exile to Hong Kong in exchange for amnesty, indemnity and liberal reform. However, neither side kept up their end of the bargain. The Spanish government did not deliver in full all that was promised, and the rebels did not truly surrender arms. In fact, Aguinaldo's revolutionaries used some of Spain's financial compensation to purchase additional arms for the resistance.
As neither peace nor independence had been achieved, in Aguinaldo returned to the Philippines to resume his rebellion against Spanish rule. Back in Cavite, Aguinaldo forcibly set up a provisional dictatorship. After meeting with the Malolos Congress and drafting a constitution for a new republic, on June 12, , Aguinaldo at last declared Philippine independence.
Announced from his hometown of Kawit, Aguinaldo's proclamation put an end to four centuries of Philippine oppression under Spanish Colonial rule. In January of the following year, dressed in a white suit at Barasoain Church in Malolos City, Aguinaldo was sworn in as the first president of the new, self-governed Philippine republic. The United States, however, was not eager to accept the Philippines' new government.
Just two weeks after Aguinaldo's inauguration, an American sentry killed a Philippine soldier stationed at the San Juan Bridge, in a gesture of resistance against the newfound Philippine independence.
On February 4, , the Philippine-American War exploded into action. Aguinaldo's revolutionaries quickly resorted to guerilla tactics, resulting in one of the bloodiest wars in American history, but in little direct progress for Aguinaldo and his cause.
Concerning the apparent futility of his efforts in war, Aguinaldo said, "I saw my own soldiers die without affecting future events. After swearing an oath of allegiance to the United States, on April 19, , Aguinaldo officially declared peace with the United States.
By this time, the United States was ready to support limited Philippine independence. Who was Emilio Aguinaldo? He signed the Pact of Biak-na-Bato, creating a truce between the Spanish and Philippine revolutionaries and was known as the President of the Revolutionary Government.
He was the youngest president to take office at age 28 and the longest-lived president, passing away at 94 in Aguinaldo, realizing that the United States would not accept immediate and complete independence for the Philippines, organized a revolution against American rule that resulted in three years of bloody guerrilla warfare. He was captured on March 23, He took an oath of allegiance to the United States and issued a peace proclamation on April Aguinaldo then retired to a private life.
Aguinaldo lost miserably to Quezon with Aglipay as a poor third. How could one fabled to have led the country against Spain and then again against the Americas lose by a landslide? When I was in school learning the history of the Philippines, I never even heard of the assassinations concocted by Aguinaldo. Apparently, years prior to , the loudest whispers were on the murders of Andres Bonifacio and his brother Procopio and General Antonio Luna.
In a newspaper clipping, the San Francisco Call, news came out on June 14, blaming Aguinaldo for the murder. He explained that initially his orders were for their banishment, but he was prevailed upon by his generals, Piodel Pilar and Mariano Noriel, members of his Council of War to change the order to execution. Aguinaldo was young, around 28 or 29 at the time, although great in the battlefield, but a newbie in politics. He was a threat to his life and the revolution. If the charge is accountability, then he is guilty by all accounts as he could have stopped it, but did not.
He must have set the precedent of defeat in nobility.
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