Note 2 — Spanish-Philippine Finances
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The first regular military organization in these Islands was in the time of Governor Pedro Manuel de Arandia (1754), when one regiment was formed of five companies of native soldiers, together with four companies of troops which arrived with the Governor from Mexico. This corps, afterwards known as the “Kingʼs Regiment”2 (Regimiento del Rey) was divided into two battalions, increased to 10 companies each as the troops returned from the provinces.