Note 26 — ROJO’S JOURNAL

The two mortar batteries, which, as has been said, were of different caliber, threw more than five thousand bombs into the city.26 The land batteries and those of the ships fired more than twenty thousand shots from twenty-four pounders, and ruined the city in many places. The enemy sent about twenty-five shells, which set fires in five different places; and if all diligence had not been employed, the city, or the greater part of it, would have been in ashes. Manila, December 23, 1762.