Imagine Capt. Jack Sparrow but with two katanas (not because that is historically accurate but because Capt. Jack Sparrow is crazy), one tanegashima teppo, and speaking Japanese in his half-drunk accent 😂😂😂😂
You guys should make a Castilian War video. It has Indians, Malaysians, Somalis, Swahilis, Egyptians, Turks, and Arabs against Filipino, Aztecs, Incans, Borneans, and the Spanish. This also happened in 1578.
That war was epic! It's a multi national army that were fighting under the sultan of Brunei , the Spaniards took over the capital city of Brunei because of the betrayal of a rebel prince named sari lana or something , the sultan forces recreated into the jungles and then they regrouped their forces and attacked finally recapturing the capital , the Spanish fleeing and the sultans forces chased them to sabah. The sultan army was made of malays indian arabs turks Somalis and turks Unbelievable
Castilian War had Indians, Malaysians, Somalis, Swahilis, Egyptians, Turks, and Arabs against Filipino, Aztecs, Incas, Borneans, and the Spanish. And this happened in 1578.
Yes, this channel is slowly going over all the often ignored parts of history I've been excited to discover over the past years. Thank you. Love the stories of obscure Spanish expeditions in the 1500-1600s, hope you revisit more in the future.
The Legazpi Expedition of 1565-1571 to the Philippines is quite an interesting subject. They faced fierce resistance of the pre-hispanic Filipinos from present-day Manila, and also the first use of the "Divide et Impera (Divide and Conquer)" strategy, where Spaniards used the ethnic Visayans (Cebuanos, Ilonggos, etc.) for their conquest of Luzon.
Just remember not to get lazy and use videos to often. Practice telling the story yourself. It will still engage the children you just can't suck at doing it.
This and Extra Credits are great for teaching kids and adults. Extra Credits is definitely perfect for kids because of the visuals and enthusiasm of the people who run the show.
@@nightlightabcd eeehh, some were, Though the correct term would be Ronin seeing as Samurai would have at least a job and a house even though many were as poor as peasants.. Most would definitely be the peasant class though.
if they were americans or people from england and not from spanish, there would be already 100 films about it. And history channel would be full of documentaries
@@jejfjaroszynski3496that's the most fascinating, all were Spanish , it did not matter where you came from,if you were under the crown you were spanish. Viva España y sus Virreinatos.
@@eelchiong6709 Actually, Filipinos had resisted Hispanization simply by not dying en masse by the Diseases from the Spanish. 😅😅 Filipinos had adopted the Spanish Cultures, yes; however they dont Speak Spanish and very few Filipinos mixed with the Spaniards, due to the fact majority of the Population were only viewed as very cheap labor. Not to mention the ongoing uprisings and resistance from the populations in the Rural areas.
@@arami187 Unlike the Native Americans, the filipinos were just as resistant to Spanish deseases as the Spaniards themselves since they were not isolated like the Americans but in constant contact with foreign traders and were once part of both the Sri Vijayan and Madjapit empires. Right, Spanish colonists rarely married filipinos, and only with the noble families when they do. But, they certainly had a lot of illegitimate children with the filipinas living and working in their haciendas. Even priests and friars were known to be womanizers.
@@eelchiong6709 it's only limited lol. More likely 4-13% in our genes have western European blood (haplogroup r1b ydna) according to many genetic research lab and our culture merely like 70% Hispanicized 20% in our language were derived from Spanish mixed with Malay, Sanskrit, english and hokkien-chinese. Better do alot of research
I'm surprised that you cover the Battle of Cagayan that was rarely discussed in Philippine history classes even upto college level and frequently overshadowed by the Battle of Vigan. I'm glad that you made a video about it!
To be fair.... This event is not that important to be discussed in general education... I mean, it may show a glimpse on how pre-colonial and early-colonial Philippines interact with neighboring countries before. I believe it's just adding filler that's not needed for the general population. Let's be real, history is interesting but it's boring too from time to time...
@@visayanmissnanny2.076 it may looks like a filler in the Philippine history but it's very important to revisit it so that we can learn something from it for future scenarios. Just an example, the Japanese might be defeated by the Spaniards during the Battle of Cagayan but centuries later, Cagayan was one of the 3 major landing areas in Northern Luzon chosen by the Imperial Japanese Military to conduct major amphibious landings that took place right after the Attack on Pearl Harbor during Dec. 1941 And if the bully above north became more aggressive and invades Taiwan forcefully, they will follow the same steps onced used by the Japanese during their Pacific Conquest.
@@paulsteaven Fair point! And good you mentioned the campaigns of 1941 and our recent issues (Deleted & Edited: Actually scratch that, unless you wish to emphasize nationalism then that's a fair point. If not, the familiarity with the 1941 invasion is pretty much enough)
@@megax242 Yes I agree. The victors write history. Although in the case of the Spanish Empire it was mostly internal conflicts that led to its decline.
@@theghosthero6173 not in this video, but later the japanese empire launch an invasion trying to remove the spanish from Philipines. This video shows only the first encounter between an european power and chinese/japanese "soldiers", not the onlyone
@@HexaDecimus yes, sadly. It's sad because they tried to dispel the myth of the "60 Spaniard destroying 1000 samurai" spread online but at the same time included it in the thumbnail, what most people see.
It definitely does. Imagine the island hopping exploration similar to odyssey or ac black flag. But in a region and time period no other game franchise has I've ever heard of has ever touched. And of course with the combat mechanics of Ghost of Tsushima, it would be amazing.
My family has lived in and around that region even before the Spanish colonization of the country. They’ve told tales about the español and natives fighting off pirates from Japan, China and even the Dutch. Along with tsunami waves hitting the coastal towns that originated from Japan.
@@paulsteavenWe managed to tackle other battles like this though, not this one but the ones involving Chinese pirates, invasion attempts by the Portuguese, by the Dutch and cherry on top, the British invasion of Manila in the Seven Years War. What bothers me that we didn't learn are what were those old seperate kingdom's in our country were before the Spanish came.
Mindanao was a particularly interesting place to trade. Sources mention Butuan (pronounced bu-TWAN), in modern-day Agusan del Norte, as a spot for gold. There were also spice trades between the Dutch and the sultanates in southwestern Mindanao. That could also be another interesting area to explore. Mindanao and Mindoro were good sources of riches. However, misfortune also struck the Spaniards there, under Ruy López de Villalobos, under whom was one Andrés de Urdaneta, who was crucial to the Legazpi expedition, and discovered a trade route from the Philippines to Mexico, which started the Manila galleon trade, another interesting topic for a video.
Butuan was one of the leading trading centres of the Philippine Archipelago from the 9th to 12th Centuries. Chinese Song Dynasty sources indicated that 3 envoy missions from Butuan on 1000s-1010s visiting the Song Court to get permission for direct trading with the Chinese instead of passing it to a third party kingdom, which is Champa in this case. Another mention of Butuan is in Antonio Pigafetta's chronicles of the Magellan-Elcano Expedition is that when they arrived in the island of Limasawa in the Visayan Islands, they met its ruler, Rajah Kolambu/Colambu, who happened to be a brother of Rajah Awi of Butuan. This shows the relations of local chiefs in the archipelago were closely connected as far as Malaya and Indonesia. There was also a type of boat discovered in Butuan by Filipino archaeologists, which is called Balangay/Balanghay. This same boat was mentioned in Pigafetta's chronicles, and the boat was a primarily used by most pre-Hispanic entities in the Philippines.
The fleet that conquered Phillipines sailed from México, most of the Spanish army were Tlaxcallans and Mexica allies, during 3 centuries The Phillipines was part of New Spain. Greetings for Spanish and Phillipino brothers from México
You can even see on the facial characteristics of modern Filipinos, the result of ages old crossover interaction among these cultures. From the East Asian pirate, to the Conquistador, to the native, the entire Filipino bloodline bares witness to their shared interaction. A rare gem of a find, K&G! Awesome work!
Sadly japanese mostly avoid historical settings ar always throw some supernatural bisho ninjas into it. I remember italian cartoon adaptation of Sandokan from my childhood with tigers sailing medieval cogs in XIX century on coast of Borneo. Only animation about asian piracy I got. :
The history of Juan Pablo de Carrión is incredibly impressive, to begin with, he had exactly 69 years at the time of the events. His one is a story of continuous failure. Born in Valladolid in 1513, he had emigrated to New Spain (Mexico) in search of fortune and had taken part in previous expeditions to the Philippines which ended in absolute disaster, the last one making him return to Spain with only two friends left. He settled down in Toledo as treasurer of the Archbishop, and married in 1559 to a woman called María De Salcedo y Sotomayor. (Continues in replies)
Strangely, when the Archbishop died he left his family and returned to America, risking his very comfortable life for an uncertain future. There he served as a boat engineer and disgracefully for him started a marital life with another woman: a local who went for the name of Leonor Suárez de Figueroa. He also attempted to join Legazpi's and Urdaneta's expedition to the Philippines, but his bad relationship with the latter threw away his attempt. This was the very successful expedition which established the desired "tornaviaje", a safe route for merchants to cross the Pacific in both directions. Meanwhile the Spanish Inquisition had opened a case out of Carrión's second marriage in 1566 with Leonor, which resulted very merciful for him because he managed to avoid being condemned to row in galleys as well as public humiliation, but had his assets seized and was forced to return with his first wife. As he was jailed again in 1574, he applied for a destination in the Philippines, perhaps to put another ocean between the Inquisition and him. But being finally in Legazpi's expedition, he discovered things weren't going as swiftly as previously, because the pirates had settled in Luzon and were very well equipped in the European stile thanks to Portuguese merchants. Apparently, when he was sent to confront the pirates it was a bit sketchy, because it was well known they were massively outnumbered, and he had no relevant military history or experience despite being a "Fleet General". But he departed with a half Spanish, half Tlaxcala (allied native Americans) crew. The only thing that I would say they missed is that Tai-Fusa's pirates were armed with hooks to catch the European spears, but being Carrion of old hand, he had previously ordered to smear the pikes in oil so this couldn't happen. In any case pretty good video, but I missed some epic animations for such an epic story.
I've also read that during their conflicts vs the Wako, the pirates are actually crazy enough to charge a tercio (Spanish pike formation) and grab or wrestle their pikes from their soldiers so the Spaniards had to actually put oil on the shaft near the pikehead for that.
Wouldn't been able since the second and fourth row of a Tercio usually had either Crossbows and Arquebusiers depending on the time...so getting close is the stupidest thing you could do...if they were early tercio you also would have rodeleros crouching and cutting their tendons from underneath the pikes.
Putting oil on the end of the pike's shafts was standard setting before a battle, and i think cleaning it was important to march with them, though i am not sure about the later.
Flat earthers: ...But, they just sailed in a big circle over a map. And, the rest of the pirates sailed toward the edge of flat earth, fell, and got eaten by leviathans! 😂😂😂
I really like how it's impossible to believe in gravity and flat earth. BUT it is compl;etely believable in all the water staying on top, and none of the dirt, falling off the bottom into space.
@Super.Chuck none of that really matters, the real conclusive proof that the Earth is not flat is the fact that cats have not knocked everything off of it by now. anyone who has ever owned a cat knows that they would have done so just to be jerks if the Earth was flat.
@@SuperChuckRaney I have seen flat earthers saying that the artic and antartic serve like big walls at the edges of earth, that's why the water doesn't fall, seriously. They are really that stupid
Hello, fantastic content as always. Just a small constructive correction regarding the title: "Conquistador" is singular, it's plural in Spanish is "conquistadores" with the extra e. In case you want to include it in the title. Keep up the good work!
This is why I love your content gentlemen, a completely obscure and BADASS event I never thought would be covered in such detail by anyone EVER, except you guys. Good work👍
@@Kokozaftran the trick is get nanban trade ships about 2 or three with a supporting fleet full of traditional ship get the black ship to target them one nanban trade ship will board the black one while the others damage it reducing it's crew
@@bombot8672 I mean, Spain help Americans in their Independence war Edit: Then we can say that America “betrayed” Spain in the Cuban Independence war, but that was in the late 18s
@@bmona7550 you are right, the spanish have the audacity to take the credit of the kapampangans, same people ( and the majority ) they used to fight against the dutch-spanish war in manila and other rebellions back at the early colonialization.
this is not an elementary or high school topic discussion this is a self research agenda since no accurate accounts & will not be taught at schools Spanish kids do the same they don't know even chinese japanese lol.
@@veewsol7078 you'd be surprised to know that Spain is one of the evil empires in history it is even in youtube. And Spain censors it's past like Japan and Russia and US.
@@gregorjerman973 Not really, for the past 300 years all history taught in Spain has been the version of history promoted by the enemies of Spain for a simple reason that I don't expect you to know and I don't are enough to explain. You are clearly an ignorant and it's not my duty to fix that.
Conquistador: sir, I don't think the pirate are from Japan only... Captain: we are the Spanish in 1582 and Conquistadors.... Half of the Wokou could be polar bears and I would still call them Japanese.
Yup. Just like the way they collectively called the various islamic and native tribes of Mindanao as "Moros" after their own Andalusian Moors during yhe reconquista of southern Iberia.
Remember these are the same Spanish that continued to call native Americans "Indians" even though they knew they weren't from India...they literally met people from India...they just didn't care
I really love the variety and your uploads, they're amazing. I just wish you'd finish or carry on series that have been going on for months if not years.
Agree. Been a lot of series part 1s, without follow-up on series already started. Been waiting on finale to Hundred Years’ War for awhile now. That said love everything being done.
Kings and Generals: the priest's accounts seem widely exaggerated... Filipino historians trying to make sense of Spanish priests' diaries and ledgers: ...yes.
the fun tings is that Spaniards absolutely believe a group of 60 tercios who weren't present in this area defeated a 1000 Japanese samurai from the satsuma province! LOL
@@carlosgarzon8900 The fun thing is that you wont find a single historical font in spanish tht call them, either "tercios", or japanese samurai. In spanish histography, this is not even called "the battle of cagayan". It is called "the combats of cagayan"...You sound like the typical south american with a huge inferiorty complex. Sorry for you, keep trying.
If you are interested in more Spanish epic battles in the area you should definetively read about the "Siege of Baler (1898-1899)" 50 Spanish soldiers held a church against the filipinos for almost a year surrounded and outnumbered 20 to 1 in the middle of the US-Spanish War. They even continued fighting for 6 months after the war ended. The survivors were famous in Spain and known as "Los últimos de Filipinas (The last ones of the Phillipines)" I wish to warch a K&G video about that hahaha
Back in baler there's also an event called the Philippines spanish friendship day which was signed by commonwealth president and fellow townsmen Manuel Quezon and the church that you mentioned, the church of baler is one of the most popular tourist spot in my hometown, sadly can't return there now cuz of pandemic
I second that. It’s one of the few battles that remain in Filipino consciousness (at least in Manila) due to the commemoration of Our Lady of La Naval every year. (Background: It was promised to the Virgin that if the Spaniards won the battle against the numerically superior Dutch, they would honor her every year).
Don't forget the majority of the spanish force is made up of native filipinos. Europeans specificaly spanish tends to ignore the huge contribution of the native filipinos
@@carlosgarzon8900 Pasar, pasó, probablemente fue exagerado pero aún así se puede deducir que los hispánicos tenían la desventaja numérica pero la ventaja estratégica, aún así no voy a negar que Tercios vs Samurais piratas en una isla tropical suena a cuento hecho por un niño de 5 años
@@Usepe Un cuento de ciencia ficción pero que si esta bien escrito mas d uno nos compraríamos y leeríamos durante días jajaja. Imaginaos una historia ficticia en plan juego tronos en esa zona donde meten conquistadores, samuráis, tormentas y monstruos marinos, piratearía etc etc
@@Alex-mh1pj estoy de acuerdo, conquistadores vs. Samuráis piratas con una mezcla de monstruos marinos mitológicos asiaticos y occidentales suena muy prometedor y no dudaría 2 veces antes de comprarmelo
I’m from Cagayan, Philippines myself and I never knew this part of our history. It was never thought. We only heard of a naval battle at the mouth of the Cagayan River and that was it. This could also be a reason why we physically and closely looked like Chinese or Japanese than out Malay brothers because we have ancestors from these groups. Cagayan is often historically dismissed as we assumed that most of the Philippine History happened in the capital Manila, and our history only began when the Spanish came. This is a helpful insight and I hope this channel will make more lesser known historical videos.
The Philippines in the 16th century was just Deadliest Warrior irl. Hope you guys also check out the Battle of Manila in 1574 which was another Conquistadors vs Wako battle, probably the biggest one. The Chinese warlord Limahong led 4,000 Wako in an attempt to take Manila for himself, but was defeated by a garrison of 300 Spanish and 300 Filipino soldiers. After his defeat, he was chased around the country by the Spanish for a year before he gave up and left to pirate elsewhere.
1:40 that's absolutely wrong. Magellan's mission was to get to the Molucas islands. It was after his death when Elcano decided to circumnavigate the world to return to Spain. This is a huge mistake.
Please do the voyage of Ferdinand Magellan and the Battle of Mactan soon, K&G! Great work! EDIT: Sir Devin, the stress on Luzon is on the second syllable.
not a single land does not have a spanish tomb, truly amazing video. Spanish history from the medieval age until the modern age is truly an adventure resembling more fantasy than history
B/c legend has it, it was the most embarrassing defeat in Japan. By that, how well trained Samurai (who were mostly Ronins), were defeated by such a small group of Spaniards. It was almost like the Battle of Thermopolyae, only difference is, the small army wins and big army loses.
@@jejfjaroszynski3496 Of course, the Tlaxcala were at first allies of the Kingdom of Castile and later part of the same kingdom and highly appreciated by the crown.
You should also see the Nossa Senhora da Graça Incident. A Portuguese Carrack,the famed "Black Ship" had a 4 day battle against thousands of Samurai and ended in a die hard last stand.
I never thought I'd hear anything ever made on this battle, much less from Kings and Generals! I remember first hearing about it in a discussion about whether pike squares were ever used against the Japanese in any way. At the time the only source I could find from this was an obscure website detailing the local history of Cagayan as a region, and then only as a footnote.
This video reminds when OffyD ( the narrator of this video) played a battle like this ( samurais vs conquistadors) at the end of his NLP series " Barbarian Masters".
1:58 error. Everyone (except the uneducated) in Magellan’s time knew the world was round. What Magellan accomplished was that circumnavigating the globe was possible and record the coordinates of latitude and longitude relevant to the Treaty of Tordesillas (1494) which divided Portuguese and Spanish overseas territories.
Actually Juan Sebastián el Cano was the first to circumnavigate the globe since Magallanes (The spanish nationaliced admiral) died in the midle of the tryp.
@@rodrigolaguna4476 Technically the first person to circumnavigate the globe was a slave that Magellan owned. He had been taken from the area near the Philippines to Portugal and had then served with Magellan on his journey.
@@latinEU It's a well documented fact and we know Magellan had his slave with him when he sailed. All we don't know is his name since it was never written down. You can look it up in a history book.
Now this is epic history 101..! Who would've tought that someone will cover these kinds of interactions.. and the best part is that i dont have to search for it.. it popped up on my notification feeds..! Ty!
I'm not much of a history person but I do enjoy watching/reading them. I must say, I wasn't expecting a Conquistador Vs Samurai topic, not even in games!
Thank you for Covering this wonderful Story. I am Filipino and I never know this. This never taught in our school. I hope you can make videos about the Philippines 😊❤🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭
This is why the Philippines is distinct from its Asian neighbors... Geographically Asian, but culturally Hispanic... On one hand, we eat rice and value family. On the other hand, we value Christianity, eat flan and speak a little bit of Spanish...
@@carlosgarzon8900 JAJAJAJAJA triste que vengan estos comentarios siempre de gente hispana, como les lavan la cabeza para odiar todo lo español... Carlos Garzón si te llamaras Tlaxia Tolkomu te diría bueno mira un indígena con motivos, pero tu? jajajajajajaj LAVADO DE CEREBRO!!
@@Alex-mh1pj el unico con lavado de cerebro eres tu, que te crees cuentos sin ningun valor historico que la unica base para dicho cuento de hadas son dos cartas totalmente contradictorias sin peso objetivo, alla cada quien con sus creencias... pero aqui no hay debate, yo soy ciencia tu eres Fe
@@carlosgarzon8900 Mira mira... no hables de lo que no tienes ni idea decir eso es como no darle crédito a ninguna parte de la historia porque un monje exageraba las cosas. Eres un tonto si te crees que esta batalla nunca ocurrió, otra cosa será el numero de contendientes y sus nacionalidades que por lo menos imagino que te llegará la cabeza para saber que para esos marinos eran la primera vez que veían ese tipo de hombres con esos rasgos para ellos serían todos iguales como los europeos para ellos. Ahora si tu te quieres engañar tu mismo.
If possible, please make a documentary about the Dagohoy Rebellion in Bohol, Philippines. A revolt that lasted for 85 years and is considered to be the longest rebellion in Philippine History.
You should make a video about the Spanish American War and ultimately the Philippine-American war as Americans don't know much about one of their longest wars that lead to the creation of the American Empire's birth.
Lmao, you can clearly watch the other videos on English History and see no bias in there. If you think that warning people that the accounts are second hand sources or that the writers may have been exaggerating things is “discredit”, that’s on you.
I think it's a good video. The whole 40 soldiers vs 1500 samurai is a myth that even wikipedia had it wrong. I'm also spanish and I love my history, but we don't have need for legends.
I am here purely because Metatron made a rant video about this one and i want to see what the latest "European Army vs Japanese Army" drama is all about. Nice video btw.
