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Pablo Morillo y Morillo (1775–1837), Count of Cartagena and Marquess of La Puerta, a.k.a. El Pacificador (The Peace Maker) was a Spanish general who fought in the napoleonic wars and hispanoamerican war of independence. Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma (1545–1592), Spanish general and military governor of the Spanish Netherlands
Map of the Presidios built in the Philippines during the 1600s, in Fortress of Empire by Rene Javellana, S. J. (1997). The Spanish fortifications of the Philippines, or fuerzas, are strongholds constructed by Filipinos and Spaniards primarily for protection against local and foreign aggressors during the Spanish colonial period, and during the subsequent American and Japanese occupations.
The history of the Philippines from 1565 to 1898 is known as the Spanish colonial period, during which the Philippine Islands were ruled as the Captaincy General of the Philippines within the Spanish East Indies, initially under the Viceroyalty of New Spain, based in Mexico City, until the independence of the Mexican Empire from Spain in 1821.
Spaniards in the Philippines may refer to either: the Spanish colonial presence in the country; or, Spanish-Filipino (disambiguation) This page was last edited on 14 ...
The apostolic zeal of the missionaries followed the efforts of men such as Miguel López de Legazpi, and aided to consolidate the enterprise of Hispanicizing the Philippines. The Spanish missionaries acted as de facto conquerors; they gained the goodwill of the islanders, presented Spanish culture positively, and in so doing won approximately 2 ...
The Spanish conquest of the Moluccas was a large-scale military campaign launched by the Spanish authorities of Manila in April 1606 in response to the alliance between the Sultanate of Ternate and the Dutch East India Company.
More peninsulares (Spaniards born in Spain) began pouring into the colony and started to occupy the various government positions traditionally held by the criollos (Spaniards born in the Philippines). In the 300 years of colonial rule, the criollos had been accustomed to being semi-autonomous with the governor-general, who was the only Spaniard ...
The most distinguished Militia unit of the Spanish colonial army in the Spanish East Indies (modern day Philippines) known as El Ejército Español en Filipinas, was the Luzon Grenadiers (Spanish: Granaderos de Luzon), which was formed in 1796 with the Grenadier and Cazador Companies of all Militia units. After being demobilized in 1817, it was ...