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The British occupation of Manila was an episode in the 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 6 October 1762 to the first week of April 1764.
The British Ministry approved Colonel Draper's plans to invade the Philippines and HMS Seahorse, under Captain Cathcart Grant, was sent to intercept Manila-bound vessels. The first portion of the invasion fleet sailed from India on 21 July, under Commodore Richard Tiddeman in HMS Elizabeth , followed by the remainder under Vice-Admiral Sir ...
Map of the British conquest of Manila 1762. Almost as soon as war had been declared with Spain, orders had been despatched for a British force at Madras to proceed to the Philippines and capture Manila, with the intention of turning it into a British entrepôt.
A colonel in 1762, he had his greatest triumph when he led together with Royal Navy officer Samuel Cornish an expedition against Spanish-held Manila, capturing the city on 6 October 1762. The British occupation of Manila lasted until 1764, after which it was returned to Spain. During the capture Draper had signed an agreement, known as the ...
The action of 30 October 1762 was a minor naval battle that was fought in the San Bernardino Strait off the coast of British-occupied Manila in the Philippines between two Royal Navy ships and a Spanish ship; the 60 gun ship of the line HMS Panther under Captain Hyde Parker and the frigate HMS Argo under Richard King captured the heavily armed Spanish treasure galleon Santisima Trinidad.
The British invasion of Manila (1762−1764) — an invasion of the Spanish colonial Philippines in the Spanish East Indies. Pages in category "British invasion of Manila" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total.
In 1762, the city was captured and occupied by Great Britain for two years as part of the Seven Years' War. The city remained the capital of the Spanish East Indies under the government of the provisional British governor, acting through the Archbishop of Manila and the Real Audiencia.
Battle of Manila (1570), Spanish forces from Mexico versus Muslims from Brunei; Battle of Manila (1574), Chinese Pirate Warlord "Limahong" versus the Spanish; Battle of Manila (1762), which saw the British take control of Manila during the Seven Years' War; Raid on Manila (1798), a British reconnaissance operation during French Revolutionary Wars