The Magdalo faction of the Katipunan

Katipunan

The Katipunan was a Philippine revolutionary society founded by anti-Spanish Filipinos in Manila in 1892, whose primary aim was to gain independence from Spain through revolution. The society was initiated by Filipino patriots Andrés Bonifacio, Teodoro Plata, Ladislao Diwa, and others on the night...

was a chapter in Cavite

Cavite

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, mostly led by ilustrados of that province.

It was named after Mary Magdalene

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. It was officially led by Baldomero Aguinaldo

Baldomero Aguinaldo

Baldomero Aguinaldo y Baloy was a leader of the Philippine Revolution. He was the first cousin of Emilio Aguinaldo, the first president of the Philippines, as well as the grandfather of Cesar Virata, a former prime minister in the 1980s.-Early life:Baldomero Aguinaldo was born in Kawit, Cavite...

, but his cousin Emilio Aguinaldo

Emilio Aguinaldo

Emilio Aguinaldo y Famy was a Filipino general, politician, and independence leader. He played an instrumental role during the Philippines' revolution against Spain, and the subsequent Philippine-American War or War of Philippine Independence that resisted American occupation...

 (whose own Katipunan codename was "Magdalo") was its most famous leader.

The Magdalo had a rivalry with the other Katipunan chapter in Cavite, the Magdiwang

Magdiwang Katipunan

The Magdiwang was a chapter of the Katipunan, a Philippine revolutionary organization founded by Filipino rebels in Manila in 1892, with the aim to gain independence from Spain....

. When the Manila

Manila

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-based Katipunan leader Andres Bonifacio

Andres Bonifacio

Andrés Bonifacio y de Castro was a Filipino nationalist and revolutionary. He was a founder and later Supremo of the Katipunan movement which sought the independence of the Philippines from Spanish colonial rule and started the Philippine Revolution...

 went to Cavite to meditate between them, the Magdalo argued for the replacement of the Katipunan by a revolutionary government. The Magdiwang initially backed Bonifacio's stance that the Katipunan already served as their government, but at the Tejeros Convention

Tejeros Convention

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, both factions were combined into to one government body under Emilio Aguinaldo.

The majority, if not all, of the civil and military officials of the First Philippine Republic

First Philippine Republic

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came from this group.