segovia was a native of spain. he'd gone to the philippines to fight with spain against the philippine revolution. after that war ended, he joined philippine revolutionaries in their against the united states. but months in, he switched sides and he joined the united. he worked for funston as both scout and an intelligence asset, and for 3 hours he labored over cipher correspondence. and then he shouted, yalla, tango. he'd broken the code. and they were able to quickly decipher the correspondence. and they. and theorrespondence did indicate that aguinaldo was in pilon on up there in isabela province. and in one of these letters, this particularly important, he asked cousin general balderrama aldo to send him for hundred reinforcements. and the letter said that the that cecilio sigismund, who was his courier, would lead reinforcements back to his headquarters in poland on so. funston pondered what he'd there and the next day he met with sigismund though and he ran by various strategies to try to aguinaldo. first he