Summary Of Dewey Jouudenes

Spanish Governor, General Fermín Jáudenes had made a secret agreement with Dewey and General Wesley Merritt. Jáudenes specifically requested to renounce or to relinquish only to the Americans, and not the Filipino revolutionaries. To save a face, he proposed a taunt(mock) battle with the Americans preceding the Spanish to give up; the Filipinos will not be able to enter the city. Dewey and Merritt concurred to this, and nobody else in either camp knew about the agreement they made. On the eve of the taunt battle, General Thomas M. Anderson sent a message to Aguinaldo, saying -"Do not allow your troops enter Manila without the permission of the American commander, on this side of the Pasig River you will be under attack”. On August 13, with