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Scorched earth : War and loss in Manila and Luzon, 1762-1764

Flannery, Kristie Patricia
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Flannery, Kristie Patricia
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The British invasion of Manila in late 1762 sparked an intense and devastating war in Luzon. By the beginning of 1763, massive popular anti-colonial rebellions erupted in Ilocos and Pangasinan in response to Spain’s temporary loss of control of the capital of its Asian empire. Spanish colonial officials partnered with Catholic priests and the loyal principalia to raise a large, multiethnic loyalist army that met the foreign invaders and local insurgents in battles. The rival armed forces that converged and clashed in the Philippines embraced scorched earth strategies, ensuring maximum damage to homes and sacred buildings. This chapter considers this complex, multifront war’s destructive impact on human life and material culture in the Philippines, illuminating its enduring impact on cultural heritage and historical knowledge.
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cultural heritage, archives, war, violence, rebellion, Manila, Luzon
Date
2024
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Book chapter
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The 1762 British invasion of Spanish-Ruled Philippines : Beyond imperial and national imaginaries
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177
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Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences
Faculty of Education and Arts
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Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences
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https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14802/9539
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https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/41697/
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The 1762 British Invasion of Spanish-Ruled Philippines: Beyond Imperial and National Imaginaries © 2024 by Maria Cristina Martinez-Juan (ed.) is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International. Copyright of individual chapters is maintained by the chapter authors. Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International This license requires that reusers give credit to the creator. It allows reusers to copy and distribute the material in any medium or format in unadapted form and for noncommercial purposes only. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Creative Commons license terms for re-use do not apply to any content (such as graphs, figures, photos, excerpts, etc.) that is not part of the Open Access publication. This requires obtaining further permission from the rights holder of Third Party material whose information is provided in the captions. The obligation to research and clear permission lies solely with the party re-using the material.