Buencamino had warned General Augustin what the fate of Manila would be if taken by a horde of Indians drunk with victory.

That fate was now deliberately planned for the city.

Aguinaldo planned to occupy the capital not as it had been occupied by the Americans.

He planned to take it as Count Tilly took Magdeburg.
"The authors of this plan were not savages.

Mabini, Sandico, and Luna, Asiatics educated in European schools, were men of trained and subtle minds.