Volume 49 — DOCUMENTS OF 1759–1765
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CONQUEST OF MANILA BY THE ENGLISH, 1762, AND OTHER EVENTS, 1762–1765
Plan of an expedition for the conquest of the southern Philippines. [Sir William Draper?; ca., 1759?]
Letters to Clevland. Admiral Samuel Cornish; October 31, and November 10, 1762.
Letter to Lord Anson. Admiral Samuel Cornish; November 1, 1762.
Letters to Earl of Egremont. Sir William Draper; November 1, and November 2, 1762.
Draper’s Journal. Sir William Draper; 1762.
Rojo’s Journal. Manuel Antonio de Rojo y Vieyra; December 23, 1762.
Anda and the English invasion, 1762–1764. Simon de Anda y Salazar, and others; October 8, 1762-March 9, 1764.
Rojo’s narrative. Manuel Antonio de Rojo y Vieyra; [1763].
Synopsis of letter to Cárlos III. Simon de Anda y Salazar; June 22, 1764.
Letter to Cárlos III. Simon de Anda y Salazar; July 23, 1764.
Letter to Gonzalez. Baltasar Vela, S.J.; July 24, 1764.
Synopsis of communications to Cárlos III. Simon de Anda y Salazar; June-July, 1764.
Draper’s defense. In two parts. I. A plain narrative. [Sir William Draper; 1764?]. II. Colonel Draper’s answer to the Spanish arguments. Sir William Draper; 1764.
Letter to Rueda. Eugenio Carrion, S.J.; July 8, 1765.
Letter to Mesquida. Bernardo Pazuengos, S.J.; July 20, 1765.
References.
Sources: The first document, the third, and the first part of the fourth, are from MSS. in the British Museum; the second, second part of the fourth, and the fifth, are from Scots Magazine for 1763; the sixth, from Le Gentil’s Voyage, ii, pp. 232–235, 236, 237–239, 241, 242, 243–247, 248–252, 255–259; the seventh and eighth, from original MSS. belonging to the Ayer Collection; the ninth, tenth, and twelfth, from the Ventura del Arco transcripts (Ayer Collection); the eleventh, fourteenth, and fifteenth, from the original MSS. in the Simancas archives; the thirteenth, from the two publications named therein; the sixteenth, editorial compilation of titles.
Translations and Compilations: These are by James A. Robertson.