Why did Aguinaldo agree to go into exile in Hong Kong?

General Emilio Aguinaldo, the first President of the Philippines, in 1897 agreed to exile in Hong Kong in exchange for 400,000 pesos from the Spanish government.

“the battle of stalingrad is not a turning point necessarily in strategic terms, because a lot more has to be done before the soviets can be certain of defeating germany,” says renowned world war ii historian richard overy. the germans had fought nearly a thousand miles across the soviet union to get to stalingrad.