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  1. On 24 September 1762, a British fleet of eight ships of the line, three frigates, and four store ships with a force of 6,839 regulars, sailors and marines, sailed into Manila Bay from Madras. : 9 The expedition, led by William Draper and Samuel Cornish, captured Manila, "the greatest Spanish fortress in the western Pacific".
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    In 1762, the British sent Admiral William Draper, with an expeditionary force of some 2,000 European and Indian (Sepoy) soldiers, to attack Manila in the Spanish colony of the Philippines. The Spanish offered little opposition, and on October 2, 1762, the acting governor-general, Archbishop Manuel Antonio Rojo, surrendered the city.
    The British occupation of Manila was an episode in colonial history of the Philippines when the Kingdom of Great Britain occupied the Spanish colonial capital of Manila and the nearby port of Cavite for eighteen months, from the 6th October 1762 to the first week of April 1764.
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    The British occupation of Manila was an episode in colonial history of the Philippines when the Kingdom of Great Britain occupied the Spanish colonial capital of Manila and the nearby port of Cavite for eighteen months, from the 6th October 1762 to the first week of April 1764.
    Limited edition modern reprint of the map showing the British attack on Manila in October 1762, from a manuscript map in the U.S. Library of Congress. Source: The Yuchengco Museum Website. Following its fall on October 6, Manila was subjected by the invaders to 40 hours of anguish as British forces raped, razed, pillaged, and looted the capital.
    The British fleet arrived in September 1762 and the expedition, led by Brigadier-General William Draper and Rear-Admiral Samuel Cornish, captured Manila quickly. Much of their ease was dye to the death of Governor-General of the Philippines Pedro Manuel Arandia, who was eventually replaced by Archbishop of Manila Manuel Rojo del Rio y Vieyra.
    The British occupation of Manila lasted from September 1762 until April 1764. 62 When British forces first arrived, they were challenged by Spanish forces (a mix of soldiers from New Spain, probably mestizos and criollos, and people native to central Luzon), but the British took Manila proper more easily than they had anticipated they would.
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    The British occupation of Manila was an episode in colonial history of the Philippines when the Kingdom of Great Britain occupied the Spanish colonial capital of Manila and the nearby port of Cavite for eighteen months, from the 6th October 1762 to the first week of April 1764. The … See more

    At the time, Britain and France were belligerents in what was later termed the Seven Years' War but Spain remained neutral despite diplomatic approaches from both sides. The … See more

    Once Manila was captured, "the soldiers turned to pillage." Rojo wrote that the sack actually lasted thirty hours or more, although he laid the blame on the Spanish, Chinese and … See more

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    1. ^ Danley & Speelman pp. 463-464.
    2. ^ Draper 2006, p. 101.
    3. ^ Tracy, Nicholas (1995). Manila Ransomed. University of Exeter Press. See more

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    • Emma Helen Blair, ed. (1907). The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 Volume XLIX, 1762-1765. Translated by James Alexander … See more

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