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Gen. Antonio Luna - Gen. Baldomero Aguinaldo |
1899 - Apolinario Mabini y Maranan, Prime Minister
of the fledgling Philippine Republic, writes to President Emilio
Aguinaldo y Famy informing him that the latter's first cousin, Gen. Baldomero Aguinaldo, is willing to be relieved from
the Department of War to avoid trouble with Gen. Antonio Luna y
Novicio, Chief of Operations; some five months before the imperialist
Bald Eagle soldiers precipitated the Filipino-American War (1899-1914),
Luna was designated in charge of the war department prior to becoming
assistant secretary of war and, nominally, director of war but his plans
would continually be revised or rejected by the war secretary, within the context of President Aguinaldo refusing to give him direct superior command in the field; writing
from San Isidro, Nueva Ecija, Mabini adds in the report that “It is
the government and not the Chief of Operations [Luna] that is responsible for the war policy; that is why the Chief of Operations should obey"; within two months and even as the Philippine-American War rages on, Gen Luna, thought to be one with the greatest capacity for war among the Filipino leaders, would be assassinated by members of the Kawit company apparently upon orders of Pres. Aguinaldo who viewed him as his looming rival in the military hierarchy.
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