154th Birthday
Lifted from JV Dancel Occena
154th Birthday, President Emillio F. Aguinaldo
March 22, 1869 - Feb. 6, 1964 (94yo)
📸 Tribute to the Founder of the Philippine Republic
Ctto: ARD
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(An excerpt of our history)
A day following his 32nd birthday in 1901, President Aguinaldo was captured at Palanan, Isabela on March 23, 1901 and was brought to Manila. Convinced of the futility of further resistance, Aguinaldo swore allegiance to the United States and issued a proclamation calling on his compatriots to lay down their arms, officially bringing an end to the war. At that point the congressional term of Arturo Dancel ended, just a few months after he became one of the notorious pioneers of the pro-American Partido Federalista or Federal Party in December 23, 1900 led by Pedro Paterno that pushed for Philippine statehood within the United States. Among the founders of this Party were Pardode Tavera, Cayetano S. Arellano, Frank S. Bourns (anAmerican manager of a big lumber company and closeassociate of Dean Worcester), Florentino Torres, AmbrosioFlores, Jose Ner, Tomas Del Rosario, Arsenio Cruz Herrera,Felipe Buencamino, Fable, Roxas, Artacho, Tirona, Reyes, Arturo Dancel and others.
The civil governor general William Howard Taft, and future 27th U.S. president, acting in cooperation with the Chief and Father of the Constabulary Capt. Henry T. Allen, authorized Arturo Dancel to open negotiations with the branded band of outlaws. As a result the outlaws who will surrender were to receive immunity from past offences and subsidized with secret service funds entrusted to Mr. Dancel.
Isabelo De Los Reyes must have gained great prominence through his writings and revolutionary activities for, in March 1901, following the capture of Emilio Aguinaldo in Palanan, Isabela, Gen. Miguel Malvar, taking command of the remaining forces in
Luzon, appointed De Los Reyes, then in Madrid, as secretary of state in his revolutionary cabinet. This designation was subsequently changed to "President of the Republic of the Philippines", an appointment signed by all the revolutionary generals in the field, but which Isabelo De Los Reyes never received because it fell into the hands of Gov. Arturo Dancel (Secret Service) of Morong, now Rizal province, who forwarded it to American Gov. Gen. William Howard Taft.
On March 30, 1901 Arturo Dancel convinced Gen. Licerio Geronimo (Gen. Emilio Aguinaldo’s elite commanding general in the Battle of San Mateo) to surrender and later joined the Partido Federal. That same year, as a result of the Balangiga Massacre, the Americans led by General Jacob H. Smith waged a campaign of terrorism against Gen. Vicente R. Lukban and the people of Samar, the Americans employed emissaries like Arturo Dancel to convince General Vicente Lukban, the politico-military chief of Samar and Leyte during the Philippine-American War, to surrender and whom the succeeding year took an oath of allegiance to the United States. Later on, Governor Arturo Dancel facilitated the capture and testified in the filing of cases against the confederate staff of Macario Sakay, a revolutionary general against Spanish & American forces and President of the Tagalog Republic, as the latter had been evading capture after being charged by the provincial fiscal of Rizal with the crime of bandolerismo and branded as robbers and outlaws.
(An excerpt of our history)
