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- Title:
- GALLEON ISSUES
- Date Created:
- 2021-09-05
- Description:
- The buying capacity for food by Spanish in Manila depended on the galleon trade. The commercial model was from the Renaissance. It was initiated for Filipinas in 1565 when the return route from the new colony to Mexico was plotted thereby connecting it to the already established pan-Atlantic galleon route. Spanish wines, olive oil, salted cod, hard cheeses, brined paho mango, sweet balimbing preserves, tuba, saplings and seeds, cows and horses all rode the galleon. In its heyday there was no limit to its profit. But as the Chinese goods it brought threatened markets for Spain’s own textile makers, limits were set to how much a galleon could earn annually. As a result there was much smuggling. In 1720, on its 155th year, the single Manila galleon was allowed to carry out goods totalling no more than P500,000. The limit to what it could bring back was P600,000. In 1743 the English Admiral George Anson captured the Covadonga off Samar Island. He hauled away P1,300,000 in silver pieces of eight and 35,632 ounces of gold bullion. Silver coins were hidden in unlikely places.
- Subjects:
- Admiral George Anson Galleon Trade Chinese Filipinas Manila-Acapulco
- Exhibition:
- Philippine Food 200
- Source:
- The Covadonga is overtaken by the Centurion led by Admiral George Anson at Cape Espiritu Santo, Samar. Maps were among the captured bounty that aided British nautical power. As Bob Couttie reminds, Anson was a naval officer with high rank and not a pirate. From the John Carter Brown Library, Boston University. In Carlos Quirino’s Philippine Cartography edited by Carlos Madrid (Vibal Foundation, 2018)
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- Image;Still Image
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Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "GALLEON ISSUES", Philippine Food History, Felice P. Sta. Maria
- Reference Link:
- felicepstamaria.net/items/coll265.html