Emilio Aguinaldo

Emilio Aguinaldo y Famy QSC PLH was a Filipino revolutionary, politician, and a military leader who is officially recognized as the First President of the Philippines and first president of a constitutional republic in Asia. He led Philippine forces first against Spain in the latter part of the Philippine Revolution , and then in the SpanishAmerican War , and finally against the United States during the PhilippineAmerican War . He was captured in Palanan, Isabela by American forces on March 23, 1901, which brought an end to his presidency.

Emilio Aguinaldo was born on March 22, 1869 in Cavite el Viejo , in Cavite , to Carlos Aguinaldo y Jamir and Trinidad Famy, a Tagalog Chinese mestizo couple who had eight children, the seventh of whom was Emilio. The Aguinaldo family was quite welltodo, as his father, Carlos Aguinaldo was the communitys appointed gobernadorcillo in the Spanish colonial administration. He studied at Colegio de San Juan de Letran but wasnt able to finish his studies due to outbreak of cholera in 1882.

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