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EMILIO F. AGUINALDO
(1869-1964)
General Emilio Aguinaldo was the President of the First Philippine Republic and leader of the Revolution against Spain and War in opposition to America occupation of the country.
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The seventh child of Don Carlos Aguinaldo y Jamir and Doña Trinidad Famy y Valero, Emilio was born at dawn of March 22, 1869 in Cavite El Viejo ( now Kawit).
He was a plucky and daring tot. At a playmate's dare, he jumped into the Marulas river and almost drowned as he did not know how to swim.
At two, he got sick with smallpox and was given up for dead until he opened his eyes. He was bitten by hundreds of ants in a bamboo clump where a relative had abandoned him for fear of some Spanish troops out on a juez de cuchillo (Justice of the knife) mission in retaliation for the Cavite Mutiny of 1872.
As a young man, he engaged in barter and trade in the nearby southern islands.
On one of his trips, taken in a big paraw (sailboat with outriggers), he grappled, subdued and lan