El Presidente-General Emilio Aguinaldo.
I've read the Spanish colonial government's stance on this man during the brief Hispano-Filipina War of 1896-1898. The Spaniards had a dual view of Aguinaldo.
a) They hated the man for his so called
"atrevimiento resistancia" in that he declared rebellion against the Spanish regime, which to the Spaniards was a "Father to Child relationship".
b) Yet the Spaniards, specifically the Governor General of the Philippines would go on to write about Aguinaldo's bravery and nationalistic patriotism in positive light in his biography. The Spanish officers both feared and adored this man.
Aguinaldo, specially in his war campaign showed strong humanitarian characteristics towards his enemies. All Spanish troops that surrendered to his forces were treated with care, given food and provision.
However Aguinaldo was intelligent to change tactics when fighting the Americans, who were known to employ a less valiant and less chivalric war policy as compared to the Spanish Infantrymen. The United States sent in their Indian-hunters to fight Agunaldo's troops, thus Aguinaldo employed a popular tactic that was once looked down upon by the Philippine Revolutionary Army and by its predecessor, the Spanish Filipino Civil Guard. Which was hit and run guerilla tactics, which was a style of warefare the officers of the former Spanish Filipino Guardia Civil noted as, "barbaric, inhumane, uncivilized"
It goes to say, desperate times calls for desperate measures. Specially during the Philippine-American War, when the Filipino forces suffered massive losses and eventually lost the war. Compared to the Hispano-Filipina War, where Filipino forces defeated most of the Spanish forces besides Manila, where the core of the Spanish Legions were based at.
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