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Basilio Augustín y Dávila (1840–1910) was briefly a Spanish Governor-General of the Philippines from April 11 to July 24 1898 in the middle of the Philippine Revolution. He attempted to create a consultative assembly of Filipino Ilustrados loyal to Spain and a militia force of Filipinos as a pretext for autonomy in the Philippines. He assured the Spanish that the war against the United States would be short and decisive. He offered one million pesos to Aguinaldo but the latter refused.
