“defeated and drove away the colonials”
Lololol. Like the Spanish Galleons didn’t come back the next year, and the year after, and the year after...
The Spanish came back about 50 years later.
Search Sto. Nino Miracle.
An earthquake, fluke of nature, and a carving of the bambino that was undamaged in the ruins, convinced the Filipinos to submit to 400 years of Catholic pederasty and slavery to Spain.
the interesting thing I’ve leaned about the phillipines in recent years is that fleets of spanish ships sailed from Mexico loaded with silver to trade with the Chinese who also established trading posts in the phillipines. The trade went on for two hundred years until the silver ran out about 1750.
That same silver fueled the wealth of europe for 200 years from 1550 to 1750.