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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 35, 1640-1649: Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century

History

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 35, 1640-1649: Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century

Demarcation line of Alexander VI; Missions -- Philippines; Philippines -- Discovery and exploration; Philippines -- History -- Sources

musketeers to fire on the men who were directing the lanchas, and at
the same time, the artillery on the starboard from which the fireship
was coming, to fire at its sides; the guns on the lookout and the poop
were fired with such effect that the vessel quickly sank in sight of
all, listing to port and going down bow first. The heretics were so
badly beaten and cowed that, spreading all their canvas, they basely
fled toward the land. Our squadron followed in pursuit, but as night
was approaching, and there was a squally wind from the northwest,
accompanied by thunder and lightning, the enemy escaped by spreading
their canvas aft and extinguishing their lights.

This signal and miraculous event was attributed by our commander
and by the entire armada to the special patronage of the blessed
Virgin of the Rosary and to the glorious Viscayan St. Ignatius,
in whose names the cannon-shots on our side piously succeeded one
another, that day. The disastrous rout of the enemy was publicly
known, and our victory was proclaimed all the more by their cowardly
flight. The losses on our side were as insignificant in this as in
the previous battle; and, in both, the courage, spirit, and skill
of our men--leaders, captains, pilots, and private persons--was very
great, as was evident in the result. By their ignominious flight the
insolent heretics left our coasts free, and departed from the islands
well sheared by the Embocadero, where they had come for wool, or for
the money brought from Nueva España for our relief.

The governor and captain-general, Don Diego Faxardo, was informed of
all this; and by his orders our armada retired to the port of Cabite
in the latter part of August, after a six months' voyage, in such
need of repairs as can well be imagined from the foregoing account of
the three battles. As soon as they landed, all our men marched with
their commander to the church of the glorious patriarch St. Dominic,
to return humble and tender thanks to the blessed Virgin of the Rosary
for victories so signal.



11. Second armada, and its battles

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History

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 35, 1640-1649: Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century

Demarcation line of Alexander VI; Missions -- Philippines; Philippines -- Discovery and exploration; Philippines -- History -- Sources

musketeers to fire on the men who were directing the lanchas, and at
the same time, the artillery on the starboard from which the fireship
was coming, to fire at its sides; the guns on the lookout and the poop
were fired with such effect that the vessel quickly sank in sight of
all, listing to port and going down bow first. The heretics were so
badly beaten and cowed that, spreading all their canvas, they basely
fled toward the land. Our squadron followed in pursuit, but as night
was approaching, and there was a squally wind from the northwest,
accompanied by thunder and lightning, the enemy escaped by spreading
their canvas aft and extinguishing their lights.

This signal and miraculous event was attributed by our commander
and by the entire armada to the special patronage of the blessed
Virgin of the Rosary and to the glorious Viscayan St. Ignatius,
in whose names the cannon-shots on our side piously succeeded one
another, that day. The disastrous rout of the enemy was publicly
known, and our victory was proclaimed all the more by their cowardly
flight. The losses on our side were as insignificant in this as in
the previous battle; and, in both, the courage, spirit, and skill
of our men--leaders, captains, pilots, and private persons--was very
great, as was evident in the result. By their ignominious flight the
insolent heretics left our coasts free, and departed from the islands
well sheared by the Embocadero, where they had come for wool, or for
the money brought from Nueva España for our relief.

The governor and captain-general, Don Diego Faxardo, was informed of
all this; and by his orders our armada retired to the port of Cabite
in the latter part of August, after a six months' voyage, in such
need of repairs as can well be imagined from the foregoing account of
the three battles. As soon as they landed, all our men marched with
their commander to the church of the glorious patriarch St. Dominic,
to return humble and tender thanks to the blessed Virgin of the Rosary
for victories so signal.



11. Second armada, and its battles

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

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