Enlightenment · Southeast Asia · War
1762
British Take Manila
October 6, 1762
A small British expedition from Madras sailed into the Philippines and, to Spain's astonishment, captured Manila. For twenty months the Union Jack flew over the cathedral. News arrived too late to matter - the Treaty of Paris had already returned it. A hint of how global this war had become.
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Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.