From Mexico to the Philippines, 1765–1811
by
Eva Maria Mehl
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2016
Nearly 4,000 Mexican troops and convicts landed in Manila Bay in the Philippines from 1765 to 1811. The majority were veterans and recruits; the rest were victims of vagrancy campaigns. Eva Maria Mehl follows these forced exiles from recruiting centers, jails and streets in central Mexico to Spanish...