Emilio Aguinaldo
Videos
Emilio Aguinaldo y Famy was a Filipino revolutionary, statesman, and military leader who was the first president of the Philippines from 1899 to 1901, and the first president of an Asian constitutiona
Portrait by Harris & Ewing, c. 1919
Aguinaldo in military uniform
President Aguinaldo at Malolos, Bulacan wearing the Rayadillo uniform and in horseback, with the Aguirre sword, a trophy of the Battle of Imus. Circa 1898.
Aguinaldo as a Generalissimo, Commander-in-Chief of all Philippine forces.
First Philippine Republic
Videos
The Philippine Republic, retroactively known as the First Philippine Republic or the Malolos Republic, was an unrecognized state established in Malolos, Bulacan, during the Philippine Revolution again
Emilio Aguinaldo
…during the Philippine–American War (1899–1901). He is regarded in the Philippines as having been the country's first president during the period of the First Philippine Republic, though he was not recognized as such outside of the revolutionary Philippines. Aguinaldo is known as a national hero in the Philippines, and designed…
The inauguration of the First Philippine Republic in Malolos, January 23, 1899
Trinidad Pardo de Tavera, Deputy Prime Minister of the First Philippine Republic
Filipino army officers in San Fernando, Pampanga Province, await President Aguinaldo's arrival from nearby Malolos, Oct. 9, 1898