Miguel Lopez de Legazpi


	Miguel Lopez de Legazpi

philippinetrivia

10-26-2009 3:05 AM

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Legazpi dispatched the first vessel which sailed across the Pacific back to Mexico. The vessel, the San Pedro, blazed the route of the Manila galleons which carried trade between Spain and Asia for the next 250 years.

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