Saturday, July 21, 2012
21 JULY
1898 - Felipe Agoncillo y Encarnacion, future Minister Plenipotentiary of the fledgling Philippine Republic, writes Apolinario Mabini y Maranan, key adviser of President Emilio Aguinaldo y Famy, expressing his apprehensions over the supposed "alliance" with the Americans
in apparent reference to Aguinaldo's (unofficial and gullible)
"alliance"
arrangement with certain United States officials during the second
phase of the Philippine Revolution; Aguinaldo's deal involved Filipinos'
cooperation in the U.S. war
against Spain and in return, America is supposed to honor the
independence of the Filipino nation; as will later be revealed,
Admiral George Dewey, Consul-General in Singapore E. Spencer Pratt;
Consul General in Hong Kong Rounsevelle Wildman, and Gen. Thomas Anderson have deceived Aguinaldo, what with the the Bald Eagle nation later invading the
Philippines come February 1899 (with the hostilities triggering the bloody and protracted Filipino-American War, 1899-1914), to be secretly instigated by the imperialist US generals upon instructions from their President William McKinley); Mabini will later write in his memoirs
that "Mr.
Aguinaldo had accepted [the verbal promises] because he ardently
desired to return to the islands, fearful that other influential
Filipinos should (rob him of glory and) reach an understanding with the
Americans in the name of the people."
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