Kobbe, left Manila and proceeded on several steamships to the southern end of Luzon Island, there to occupy and permanently garrison six seacoast towns and villages. Up to the present time three ...

The old walled city of Intramuros was Manila's seat of government during Spanish rule (1565-1898), and remains the first port of call for visitors, who are drawn to its graceful colonial ...

Old Tom, Spanish-American War veteran ... “Until the past few weeks, when I’d come to Manila to look up my partners, it was practically a question of begging enough money to meet my payrolls.

A conflict is coming, so it is said, over the owhershtp of real estate in the Clty of Manila. About three-fourths of all of it within the old and walled city is in the hands of the Roman 'Catholic ...

Spanish Galleons sail the wide open seas ... For, you see, one in five of the ships leaving from the port of Manila didn't make it to Acapulco. It's a shipwrecking rate much higher than rates ...

Yet, it became important in our nation's history because from its abundant adobe quarries the stones that built Old Manila was made, the center of the Spanish Empire in the East. This empire ...