After finishing his studies, he was sent to the town of San Francisco de Malabon (now General Trias) in Cavite to supervise a primary school.

[4][5][6] After the start of the Philippine Revolution on August 31, 1896, Ricarte led the revolutionists in attacking the Spanish garrison in San Francisco de Malabon.

On March 22, 1897, during the Tejeros Convention, Ricarte was unanimously elected Captain-General of a new revolutionary government under Emilio Aguinaldo as president.

This eventually led General Jaudenes to surrender the City of Manila to Admiral Dewey, thus the liberation of the Philippines from the Spanish colonizers.

Unfortunately, however, the Americans afterwards refused to recognize the participation of the Filipinos in the siege of the city and even deprived them of their rights as victors to triumphantly enter its gates.

After said meetings, some of these members turned on Ricarte and notified the Americans, specifically former General Pío del Pilar.

Just as his health was returning, a clerk from his outfit, Luis Baltazar, turned against him and notified the local Philippine Constabulary of his location at Mariveles, Bataan.

He was frequently visited by old friends from the Philippine revolutionary war as well as U.S. government officials, including the vice-president of the United States under Theodore Roosevelt, Charles W. Fairbanks.

While in Japan, Ricarte and his wife, Agueda opened a small restaurant, Karihan Luvimin, and returned to teaching.

[4] Agueda Esteban, his wife engaged in the real estate business, which enabled the couple to purchase three houses in Japan.

Just as Ricarte's life was fading away into obscurity, World War II began and the Imperial Japanese Army invaded the Philippines.

In 1942, when Japan's military forces occupied Manila, Prime Minister Hideki Tojo asked Ricarte to return to the Philippines to help maintain peace and order.

Tojo thus promised Ricarte that if he could bring about peace and order in the Philippines within a year, the Japanese government would hand back to the Filipino people their independence.

Sometime in November 1944, Gen. Artemio Ricarte informed his wife, Agueda that President Jose P. Laurel and his cabinet would have a meeting in Baguio with high-ranking Japanese officials and that he had to be present there.

Before he left Baguio, Benigno Ramos, the leader-founder of Makapili, invited him over to his place (now the site of Christ the King Church in Quezon City).

Near the end of World War II, Ricarte again found himself taking flight from American and Filipino forces.

Ricarte was implored by colleagues to evacuate the Philippines but had refused, stating "I can not take refuge in Japan at this critical moment when my people are in actual distress.

Furthermore, a landmark was inaugurated by historian Ambeth Ocampo, chairman of the National Historical Institute with a granddaughter of Ricarte in April 2002, at his grave in Hungduan.