Aguinaldo’s élan, as the Spanish-speaking gentleman that he was, proved to the world that the Filipinos of that time were not the g-stringed savages, prone to head-hunting, torture and robbery, that a later colonization tried to show in the pre-war II St. Louis exposition to the exasperation of one Manuel Luis Quézon from Baler’s small "Sector de Mestizos".
Ang pagsama ng Portugal at España sa ilalim ng Haring Felipe, Segundo (II), tumagal ng otsenta (80) años mula sa pag-akyat ni Haring Felipe Segundo sa trono ng España at Portugal nuong 1545.