The British will hold Manila until it…
April 1763 CE
News that it had been lost did not reach Spain until after the cessation of hostilities between the two powers.
Oidor Don Simon Anda y Salazar had been dispatched to Bulacan in order to organize resistance.
There he organizes an army of ten thousand Filipinos under the command of Jose Busto.
Manila is placed under the authority of civilian Deputy Governor Dawsonne Drake, appointed by the East India Company as the leader of the Manila Council.
Major Fell commands the garrison as another member of the council.
During their time in the Philippines, the British find themselves confined to Manila and Cavite in a deteriorating situation, unable to extend British control over the islands and unable to make good their promised support for an uprising led first by Diego Silang and later by his wife Gabriela, which is crushed by Spanish forces.
The British expedition is rewarded after the capture of the treasure ship Filipina, carrying American silver from Acapulco, and in a battle off Cavite the Santísima Trinidad, which carried China goods.
However, when Cornish sails for Madras with the East Indies Squadron in early 1763, he has only collected $516,260 of the two million dollar ransom.
The balance consists of bills of exchange, though Spain never does pay the Manila ransom.
The city will remain under British rule for eighteen months and will be returned to Spain in April 1764 after the Treaty of Paris.
Draper and Cornish are thanked by Parliament on April 18, 1763, Cornish was made a Baronet of Great Britain, and Draper will eventually receive as Knighthood of the Bath.
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