<Ul> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> </Ul> <P> The Philippine Revolution (Filipino: Himagsikang Pilipino; Spanish: Revolución Filipina), also called the Tagalog War (Spanish: Guerra Tagalog, Filipino: Digmaang Tagalog) by the Spanish, was a revolution and subsequent conflict fought between the people and insurgents of the Philippines and the Kingdom of Spain - including its Spanish Empire and Spanish colonial authorities in the Spanish East Indies . </P> <P> The Philippine Revolution began in August 1896, when the Spanish authorities discovered the Katipunan, an anti-colonial secret organization . The Katipunan, led by Andrés Bonifacio, was a liberationist movement whose goal was independence from the 333 years of colonial control from Spain through armed revolt . The organization began to influence much of the Philippines . During a mass gathering in Caloocan, the leaders of the Katipunan organized themselves into a revolutionary government, named the newly established government "Haring Bayang Katagalugan", and openly declared a nationwide armed revolution . Bonifacio called for an attack on the capital city of Manila . This attack failed; however, the surrounding provinces began to revolt . In particular, rebels in Cavite led by Mariano Álvarez and Emilio Aguinaldo (who were from two different factions of the Katipunan) won early victories . A power struggle among the revolutionaries led to Bonifacio's death in 1897, with command shifting to Aguinaldo, who led his own revolutionary government . That year, the revolutionaries and the Spanish signed the Pact of Biak - na - Bato, which temporarily reduced hostilities . Aguinaldo and other Filipino officers exiled themselves in the British colony of Hong Kong in southeast China . However, the hostilities never completely ceased . </P> <P> On April 21, 1898, after the sinking of the USS Maine in Havana Harbor and prior to its declaration of war on April 25, the United States launched a naval blockade of the Spanish colony island of Cuba, off its southern coast of the peninsula of Florida . This was the first military action of the Spanish--American War of 1898 . On May 1, the U.S. Navy's Asiatic Squadron, under Commodore George Dewey, decisively defeated the Spanish Navy in the Battle of Manila Bay, effectively seizing control of Manila . On May 19, Aguinaldo, unofficially allied with the United States, returned to the Philippines and resumed attacks against the Spaniards . By June, the rebels had gained control of nearly all of the Philippines, with the exception of Manila . On June 12, Aguinaldo issued the Philippine Declaration of Independence . Although this signified the end date of the revolution, neither Spain nor the United States recognized Philippine independence . </P>

Early political systems from pre colonial times until the philippine revolution