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The Captaincy General of the Philippines [a] was an administrative district of the Spanish Empire in Southeast Asia governed by a governor-general as a dependency of the Viceroyalty of New Spain based in Mexico City until Mexican independence when it was transferred directly to Madrid .
The Commanding General of the Philippine Army ( CGPA) is the overall commander and highest ranking officer commissioned to serve in the Philippine Army. The position concurrently holds the three-star rank of Lieutenant General. [2] The commanding general is appointed by the President of the Philippines and confirmed by the Commission on ...
W. Valeriano Weyler. Categories: Governors-General of the Philippines. Captaincy General of the Philippines. Spanish colonial governors and administrators. Spanish people in the colonial Philippines. Spanish captain generals.
Jose Alejandrino. Brigadier General. He was a contributor to La Solidaridad and one of the members of the Propaganda Movement in Spain along with Jose Rizal, Marcelo H. del Pilar, Mariano Ponce and Graciano Lopez Jaena. He was part of Aguinaldo's Hong Kong Junta, the exiled Revolutionary Government of the Philippines.
History of the Philippines (1565–1898) Former Spanish colonies. Former colonies in Southeast Asia. Former colonies in Oceania. New Spain. Spanish East Indies. European colonisation in Asia. European colonisation in Oceania. Philippines–Spain relations.
This territory was also called the Captaincy-General of the Philippines and thus the governor also held the title of Captain General, a military rank conferred by the Spanish Cortes Generales. The men that held this position governed the Philippines and the rest of the Spanish East Indies from 1565 to 1821, on behalf of the Viceroyalty of New ...
The governor-general of the Philippines ( Filipinas; Filipino: Gobernador-Heneral ng Pilipinas/Kapitan Heneral ng Pilipinas) was the title of the government executive during the colonial period of the Philippines, governed by Mexico City and Madrid (1565–1898) and the United States (1898–1946), and briefly by Great Britain (1762–1764) and ...
