The
Pact of Biak-na-Bato, signed on December 14, 1897, created a truce between Spanish colonial
Governor-General Fernando Primo de Rivera and the revolutionary leader
Emilio Aguinaldo to end the
Philippine Revolution. Aguinaldo and his fellow revolutionaries were given amnesty and monetary indemnity by the Spanish Government, in return for which the revolutionary government would go into exile in
Hong Kong. Aguinaldo had designs to use the money to purchase firearms and return to the archipelago.