Aguinaldo quickly resumed command of the Revolutionary army which would soon surround Intramuros, the walled center of the Spanish Crown in Manila. A couple of weeks later, Admiral Dewey provided transport for Aguinaldo to come back to the Philippines and continue the Philippine Revolution, thereby helping the US finish off the Spaniards.
About a week later, the first battle of the war broke out in Manila Bay where the US squadron decimated the Spanish forces that had already been weakened by the Philippine Revolution. In the meantime, the Spanish-American war erupted in April 1898 with the mysterious explosion and sinking of the USS Maine in the Cuban harbor. He received amnesty and monetary reward in exchange for dissolving the provisional government and immediate banishment to Hong Kong where he nevertheless organized a revolutionary government-in-exile. After suffering military setbacks, however, Aguinaldo entered in December 1897 into a peace pact with the Spanish authorities. Nevertheless, the insurgents managed to continue putting the Spanish forces on the defensive and establishing garrisons across the main island of Luzon. Pre-figuring the later assassination of Antonio Luna, he ordered the execution of another revolutionary leader, Andres Bonifacio, whom he deemed a threat to his leadership. Jose Rizal, a trail of land grabs and other abuses by Spanish friars, a history of suppressed revolts, and liberal currents animating well-to-do Filipinos coming back from studies in Barcelona and Madrid.Īmong the leaders of the Revolution was General Emilio Aguinaldo (in many ways the film’s main antagonist) who would eventually be elected President of the revolutionary Philippine Republic. In 1896, the Philippine Revolution against Spain erupted, fed by the execution of the nationalist novelist Dr. Though not necessary for following the plot, a de-entangling historical and biographical backgrounder would vastly complement and enrich a viewing of this historical epic. Heneral Lunaforges force and form from this hopelessly mixed-up period by focusing on its title character, General Antonio Luna (John Arcilla). The film is set between December 1898 and June 1899, during one of the most pivotal, fraught, tangled, and confusing periods in Philippine history.
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