A tall soldier from western America paid no attention to the insults hurled at him in a language which he did not understand.

And yet the small excited Filipinos might retire feeling that the American had tamely submitted to insult worse than a blow." By the middle of December, Aguinaldo had placed in position in the vicinity of Manila all of the field guns in his possession.
The Treaty of Paris was signed on December 10.

It provided for the termination of Spanish sovereignty in the Philippines.

This was what the Insurgents had been waiting for, and thereafter things moved rapidly.

It is obvious that an attack was definitely planned for at this time, for on December 21, Commandant F.E.Rey telegraphed Aguinaldo that the second chief of the second zone of Manila had directed him to assist by entering that city as soon as they opened fire against the American troops.