Editing Emilio Aguinaldo (section)

===Assassination of Luna===
{{main article|Antonio Luna#Assassination and aftermath}}
[[Antonio Luna]] was a highly regarded general in the revolution who was sometimes at odds with Aguinaldo. On June 2, 1899, Luna received one telegram (he failed to receive two others) sent by Aguinaldo himself, According to Ambeth Ocampo, the message that Aguinaldo sent stated "Felipe Buencamino is detained without ordering the formation of the case. I await your reply to my previous telegram where I request the basis for your accusation. Beseech urgency."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://lifestyle.inquirer.net/316651/discrepancies-and-more-questions-about-lunas-deadly-p3-2m-telegram/ |title=The Luna telegram: Not so 'deadly' after all|date=December 9, 2018|newspaper=Philippine Daily Inquiter}}</ref>

Luna wrote to [[Arcadio Maxilom]], military commander of [[Cebu]], to stand firm in the war.{{sfn|Jose|1972|p=377}} Luna set off from [[Bayambang]], first by train, then on horseback, and eventually in three carriages, to Nueva Ecija with 25 of his men.
<ref name="Dumindin 2006">{{cite web|last=Dumindin|first=Arnaldo|title=June 5, 1899: Assassination of Gen. Antonio Luna|url=http://philippineamericanwar.webs.com/lunaassassination.htm|access-date=June 29, 2012|archive-date=June 20, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120620032127/http://philippineamericanwar.webs.com/lunaassassination.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="malolos crisis">{{cite book|last=Agoncillo|first=Teodoro|title=Malolos: The Crisis of the Republic|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LnxvAAAACAAJ|year=1960|publisher=University of the Philippines Press |isbn=978-971-542-096-9}}</ref> During the journey, two of the carriages broke down and so he proceeded with just one carriage with [[Paco Roman|Colonel Francisco Román]] and Captain Eduardo Rusca, having earlier shed his cavalry escort.{{citation needed|date=July 2019}} On June 4, Luna sent a telegram to Aguinaldo to confirm his arrival. Upon arriving at Cabanatuan on June 5, Luna alone proceeded to the headquarters to communicate with the president. As he went up the stairs, he ran into two men: Felipe Buencamino, [[Secretary of Foreign Affairs (Philippines)|Minister of Foreign Affairs]] and a member of the Cabinet; and Captain Pedro Janolino. The commander of the Kawit Battalion, Janolino was an old enemy whom Luna had disarmed for insubordination, and once threatened with arrest for favoring American autonomy. General Luna was told that Aguinaldo had left for [[San Isidro, Nueva Ecija|San Isidro]] in [[Nueva Ecija]]. (He had actually gone to [[Bamban]] in Tarlac.) Enraged, Luna asked why he had not been told that the meeting had been canceled.{{sfn|Jose|1972|pp=429–436}}

The general and the captain exchanged heated words as Luna was about to depart. In the [[plaza]], a rifle shot rang out. Still outraged and furious, Luna rushed down the stairs and met Janolino, accompanied by some elements of the Kawit Battalion. Janolino swung his [[Bolo knife|bolo]] at Luna, wounding him in the head. Janolino's men fired at Luna while others started stabbing him even as he tried to fire his revolver at one of his attackers.{{sfn|Jose|1972|pp=429–436}} He staggered out into the plaza where Román and Rusca were rushing to his aid, but as he lay dying, they too were set upon and shot, with Román being killed and Rusca being severely wounded. Luna received more than 30 wounds{{sfn|Jose|1972|p=436}} and uttered "Traitors! Assassins!"{{sfn|Jose|1972|pp=429–436}} He was hurriedly buried in the [[churchyard]], and Aguinaldo [[relief (military)|relieved]] Luna's officers and men from the field, including General [[Venacio Concepción]], whose headquarters in [[Angeles, Pampanga]], Aguinaldo besieged the same day that Luna was assassinated.

Immediately after Luna's death, confusion reigned on both sides. The Americans even thought that Luna had taken over to replace Aguinaldo.{{sfn|Jose|1972|p=375}} Luna's death was publicly declared only by June 8, and a circular providing details of the event released by June 13. Investigations were supposedly made concerning Luna's death, but not one person was [[convicted]].{{sfn|Jose|1972|pp=388–392}} Later, General Pantaleon García said in 1921 that he was verbally ordered by Aguinaldo to conduct the assassination of Luna at Cabanatuan. His sickness then prevented his participation in the assassination.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.filipinaslibrary.org.ph/biblio/106315/|title=Declaration of Pantaleon Garcia, 5 June 1921, stating Aguinaldo gave him verbal orders to assassinate Antonio Luna but he was ill and couldn't comply|date=June 5, 1921|publisher=[[Ayala Museum|Filipinas Heritage Library]]}}</ref> Aguinaldo would be firm in his stand that he had nothing to do with the assassination of Luna.<ref name="MjLoO">Aguinaldo, Emilio. (1964). ''Mga Gunita ng Himagsikan''.</ref>