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  2. Manila galleon - Wikipedia

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    The Manila galleon (Spanish: Galeón de Manila; Filipino: Galyon ng Maynila) refers to the Spanish trading ships that linked the Philippines in the Spanish East Indies to Mexico (New Spain), across the Pacific Ocean. The ships made one or two round-trip voyages per year between the ports of Manila and Acapulco from the late 16th to early 19th ...

  3. Beeswax wreck - Wikipedia

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    The Beeswax Wreck is a shipwreck off the coast of the U.S. state of Oregon, discovered by Craig Andes near Cape Falcon in 2013 in Tillamook County. The ship, thought to be the Spanish Manila galleon Santo Cristo de Burgos that was wrecked in 1693, was carrying a large cargo of beeswax, lumps of which have been found scattered along Oregon's ...

  4. The Galeón - Wikipedia

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    Grounds. 5,000 m 2 (54,000 sq ft) The Galeón: Manila–Acapulco Galleon Museum or the Museo de Galleon[2] 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.

  5. Economic history of the Philippines - Wikipedia

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    The economic history of the Philippines is shaped by its colonial past, evolving governance, and integration into the global economy. Prior to Spanish colonization in the 16th century, the islands had a flourishing economy centered around agriculture, fisheries, and trade with neighboring countries like China, Japan, and Southeast Asia.

  6. First landing of Filipinos in the United States - Wikipedia

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    On 18 October 1587, the first Filipinos landed in what is now the Continental United States at Morro Bay. [1] They arrived aboard the Nuestra Señora de Buena Esperanza, which had sailed from Portuguese Macau, as part of the Manila galleon trade. [2] During about three days of travels ashore around Morro Bay, the crew of the Nuestra Señora de ...

  7. George Anson's voyage around the world - Wikipedia

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    F. Van Wyck Mason's novel, Manila Galleon, is a fictional account of Anson's voyage. Patrick O'Brian's The Golden Ocean (1956) and The Unknown Shore (1959) both depict fictional pairs of young men loosely based on real seaman who participated in Anson's voyage.

  8. Museo del Galeón - Wikipedia

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    Floor count. 3. Grounds. 5,000 m 2 (54,000 sq ft) Museo del Galeón[2] (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.

  9. Thomas Cavendish's circumnavigation - Wikipedia

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    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 ...