(A) The Spanish ambassador insults President McKinley in this document; accused America of being weak
(B) A Spanish General sent to Cuba to restore order and peace. He was known as the “butcher".
(C) ** Leader of the Filipino independence movement against Spain.
(D) Led the fight for Cuba’s independence from Spain from 1895 through the Spanish-American War
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Concept note-1: -Emilio Aguinaldo y Famy was born into the local elite of Cavite on the Island of Luzon in the Philippines. His father had been mayor of Kawit (Cavite viejo) at the time of his death in 1878, a post Aguinaldo himself would hold in 1895.
Concept note-2: -Led by Emilio Aguinaldo (1869-1964), the 1896 revolt carried the Filipinos to an anticipated war with Spain and an unanticipated war with the United States.
Concept note-3: -Filipinos ripped up their tax and citizenship documents and started fighting through Luzon. Emilio Jacinto commanded Katipunan’s troops in several decisive struggle where both sides sustained major losses. The Katipunan movement frightened the Spanish and their supporters in the country.
Concept note-4: -Emilio Aguinaldo was born on March 22, 1869, in Kawit, Cavite, Philippines. In 1898, he achieved independence of the Philippines from Spain and was elected the first president of the new republic under the Malolos Congress. He also led the Philippine-American War against U.S. resistance to Philippine independence.
Concept note-5: -A British businessman, H.W. Bray agreed to act as interpreter. Aguinaldo, and his British interpreter maintained later that the Philippines had been promised independence in return for helping the U.S. defeat the Spanish. Aguinaldo was asked to go to Manila by George Dewey.