Funston.

Cecelio segismundo pinpointed the village of Palanan,

in mountainous Isabela Province, as Aguinaldos headquarters. He told
Funston that there was no more than fifty guards at Palanan (Aguinaldo
later charged that Segismundo did not talk until after he had been given the
water cure twice, but American officers insisted that he gave his
cooperation voluntarily).
Some of the coded dispatches carried by Segismundo were signed with the
names "Pastor" and "Colon de Magdalo," which were pseudonyms often
used by Aquinaldo. Funston, another American officer, and Lazaro
Segovia deciphered the messages. The latter was a former Spanish army
officer who had defected to the Philippine army and then switched
allegiance to the American side; he understood English, Spanish, and the
Tagalog dialect. The most important message was an order to General
Baldomero Aguinaldo (Cousin of Emilio) instructing him to send some
troops to Palanan.
Wuth the approval of general Mac Arthur ( who had succeed Otis as
Military Governor), Funston secretly prepared in manila an expedition for
the capture of Aguinaldo.

Together with 5 american officers(including funston),1 spanish
interpreter(Lazaro Segovia- he understood English, Spanish, and the
Tagalog dialect),4 tagalogs( Incliding Hilario tal placido,the former officer of
Aguinaldo) and 80 macabebe scouts.
March 6, 1901(Night) Funston party quietly slipped out of manila bay on
board the gunboat Vicksburg and landed at dawn of March 14 at Casiguran
bay.
Funston disguised the Macabebes and sent them to Palanan, posing as the
men Aquinaldo had requested. Funston and four other American officers,
disguised as prisoners of war, accompanied the column. The handpicked
Macabebes --78 in number, members of Company D, First Battalion,
Macabebe Scouts-- spoke Tagalog in addition to their dialect. They turned
in their Springfields and were issued 50 Mausers, 18 Remingtons and
10 Krag-Jorgensens, which were the types of rifles used by Aguinaldo's
soldiers. Twenty of them wore the rayadillo uniform of the Philippine army.
In addition to Segismundo, Funston included in the column Hilario Tal
Placido, Lazaro Segovia, Dionisio Bato, and Gregorio Cadhit. Placido had
been a Lieutenant Colonel in the Philippine army and he knew Aquinaldo
personally.

Some months previously, Funston had captured General Urbano
Lacuna's seal and official signed correspondence. From this material, two
letters were forgedsupposedly from Lacuna to Aguinaldo. One letter
contained information as to the progress of the war. The other stated that
in accordance with instructions from General Baldomero Aguinaldo, he was
sending eighty men to Palanan under the command of Placido, Segovia, and
Segismundo.

Tal placido and Segovia ascende the house where aguinaldo unaware of
treachery, welcome them. At a given signaled the macabebes suddenly
opened fire on the guard who cough by surprise, were easily overpowered.

On hearing the gunshots, Aguinaldo rushed to the windows shouting Stop
firing. Before he could turn around, he was grabbed from behing by tal
placido(a fat powerful man) Holding him helpless until General funston and
the four American officers entered the room and arrested aguinaldoin the
name of U.S
April 19 1901- Aguinaldo took the oath of allegiance to the government of
U.S

April 19 1901, there was a proclamation by Aguinaldo. He said that the
Filipino accept the soveriegty of the U.S govt.
At 2:00 a.m. of March 28, the USS Vicksburg anchored in Manila Bay, with
all lights screened, to keep the return of the expedition secret.
The Vicksburg launch, with Aguinaldo and his aides on board, steaming for
the mouth of the Pasig River, at daybreak, March 28, 1901.At 6:00 a.m.,
General Funston and Aguinaldo, accompanied by some officers, boarded
one of the launches and left the USS Vicksburg. They went up the Pasig
River to the residence of the Governor-General in Malacaan, where they
disembarked. Aguinaldo was presented to Brig. Gen. Arthur C. MacArthur,
Jr. as a prisoner of war. He was treated by the Americans more as a guest
than as a prisoner. Aguinaldo complimented his captors: "At all times since
our capture, as well in Palanan as on board the Vicksburg, we have been
treated with the highest consideration by our captors, as well as by all the
other American officers with whom we have come in contact."
The administration in Washington called Aguinaldo's capture "the most
important single military event of the year in the Philippines." Nine days
after his capture, on April 1, Aguinaldo swore allegiance to the United
States.