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The wrecks of the Manila galleons are legends second only to the wrecks of treasure ships in the Caribbean. In 1568, Miguel López de Legazpi's own ship, the San Pablo (300 tons), was the first Manila galleon to be wrecked en route to Mexico.
The raid on Manila of January 1798 was a Royal Navy false flag military operation during the French Revolutionary Wars intended to scout the strength of the defences of Manila, capital of the Spanish Philippines, capture a Manila galleon and assess the condition of the Spanish Navy squadron maintained in the port.
Museo del Galeón [1] (lit. ' Galleon museum ') is a maritime museum under construction within the SM Mall of Asia complex in Pasay, Metro Manila, Philippines.The museum will feature Manila–Acapulco galleon trade and will also house a full-scale replica of a Galleon within its interior.
The port, Puerto de Cavite, was one of many important Spanish naval possessions in Manila Bay in the Captaincy General of the Philippines, and facilitated the Manila galleons trade between the Philippines and New Spain (present day Mexico). Puerto de Cavite is located in present-day Cavite City.
Here Cavendish was determined to wait for the Manila galleon. [36] The Manila galleons were restricted by the Spanish Monarch to one or two ships/year and typically carried all the goods accumulated in the Spanish Philippines in a year's worth of trading silver, from the Mints in the Americas, with the Chinese and others, for spices, silk, gold ...
The Spanish ships on these routes were known as the Manila galleons. [ 17 ] Mexican (or rather, New Spaniard ) immigrants to the Philippines belonged to different ethnic groups such as indigenous people, mestizos and Creoles who mainly mixed with the local population, which increased the number of descendants with Spanish surnames.
Nuestra Señora de la Encarnación y Desengaño, nicknamed Desengaño, was a Manila galleon which plied the trade routes between the Viceroyalty of New Spain and the Spanish Philippines. The ship was captured on 22 December 1709 by a British privateering expedition led by Woodes Rogers and renamed Bachelor.
Manila was the western hub of the trans-Pacific trade. [11] Manila galleons were constructed in Bicol and Cavite. [12] [13] Trade between Spain and the Philippines was via the Pacific Ocean to Mexico (Manila to Acapulco), and then across the Caribbean Sea and Atlantic Ocean to Spain (Veracruz to Cádiz). Manila became a major center of trade in ...