Capitolo 18
31 and, besides, that the Filipinos is free very anxious to
them from the Spanish and irritating joke that they is able therefore
struggle and my troops would constitute on some deficiency in the discipline from
a show of the fearlessness and the determination to defeat the common enemy
what they would go far to assure the success, I was, I added, nevertheless
absolutely thankful to the admiral for his/her friendly suggestion.
I quickly gave orders for the distribution of the arm that you/they had
only it arrived, while sending some to the various provinces and reserving the
liquid for the revolutionaries of Kawit, the second being smuggled
in the district of Alapang during the night of 27 May.
CHAPTER YOU
The first Triumphs
Next day (8 May, 1898), only when we was distributing arm to
the revolutionary one of Kawit, in the above of mentioned district a column,
composed more of 270 Spanish Naval Infantry, appeared in sight. Them
you/he/she was sent by the Spanish General Sr. Punishment, for the purpose of
grabbing the consignment dictates of arm.
Then it was that the first appointment of the Revolution of 1898 (what
a continuation of the country of 1896-97 can be drawn) exactly taken
place. The battle got mad from 10 in the morning to 3 in the evening, when the Spaniards raced
out of ammunition and he surrendered, with all of their arm, to the Filipino
Revolutionary that brought their prisoners to Cavite. In commemoration
of this glorious attainment I raised our national flag in presence
of a great crowd that he/she greeted him/it with awful applause and noise,
spontaneous and prolonged to the health for her "Philippines Independent" and for
"the generous one nation"--the United States of America. Many officers
and Marines from the American fleet that testified to the shown ceremony
understanding with the cause of Filipino connecting in the natural and popular one
the joyfulness of the people.
This glorious triumph was only the prelude to a succession of
bright victories, and when on May 31 came--the date mended for