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So under the governorship in the Philippines of Don Jose Basco y Vargas, two Dominicans and an assortment of government officials and functionaries headed by a governor were sent to Batanes. On 26 June 1783 the islands were officially made part of the Philippines. It did not take long before the true economic potential of the islands be-came ...
Vasco y Vargas, José de. Conde de la Conquista de las Islas Batanes (I). Ronda (Málaga), 1733 – Málaga, 23.XII.1805. Jefe de escuadra de la Real Armada y gobernador general y capitán general de las Islas Filipinas. Pertenecía por ambas ramas a familias de la nobleza andaluza.
José Basco y Pérez de Vargas, 1st Count of the Conquest of Batanes Islands (Spanish: José Basco y Vargas, primer conde de la conquista de las islas Batanes (1731–1805) was a naval officer of the Spanish Navy who served as the 53rd governor of the Spanish Philippines under the Spanish Empire, from 1778 to 1787.
In this influential study Phelan analyzes the transformations of the Philippine society under Spanish colonization, specifically changes in the spheres of labor, agricul-ture, ecology, political organization, culture, and religion.
José Basco y Vargas, 1st Count of the Conquest of Batanes Islands. Career He was one of the most economic minded governor-generals that served in Spanish ruled Philippines.
José Basco y Vargas (Ronda, 1733-1805) fue un militar español, gobernador y capitán general de las Islas Filipinas. Brigadier de la Real Armada, conquistó para la Corona Española el archipiélago de las islas Batanes, circunstancia que, junto con su brillante actuación durante el ejercicio de sus funciones (1776-1787) entre otros ...
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After Spanish rule was restored, José Basco y Vargas one of the ablest of Spanish administrators, was the governor from 1778 to 1787, and he implemented a series of reforms designed to promote the economic development of the islands and make them independent of the subsidy from New Spain.
