06 July, 1898

TODAY IN PHILIPPINE HISTORY:

In what will prove to be one of the most infamous military decision, President Emilio Aguinaldo of the fledgling Philippine Republic will assure imperialist American Gen. Thomas M. Anderson that he has already ordered his “people not to interfere” with the American forces who has been entering the Southeast Asian archipelago during the Spanish-American War.

Aguinaldo, who has led Filipinos to defeat the Spanish forces at almost every encounter and win control over almost the entire northern provinces and the bay coast from colonial Spanish forces, had earlier been deceptively assured by United States Commodore George Dewey that the US is an ally and in a few months, the sinister and eventually successful American invasion plan against the Philippines will be revealed.

(Ref: Philippine News Agency; Photo from Malacanang.gov.ph)