Originally Posted by
Selurong
Actually. Native American genes not only back migrated to Asia via Russia they also migrated back to Asia via Latinos sailing to the Philippines...
Here's a quote from colonial chronicles...
"In 1787 the garrison at Manila consisted of one regiment of Mexicans comprising one thousand three hundred men, two artillery companies of eighty men each, three cavalry companies of fifty men each." La Pérouse, ii, p. 368."
Some soldiers sent to the Philippines even came from Peru...
Second Book of the Second Part of the Conquests of the Filipinas Islands, and Chronicle of the Religious of Our Father, St. Augustine" (Zamboanga City History) "He (Governor Don Sebastían Hurtado de Corcuera) brought a great reënforcements of soldiers, many of them from Perú, as he made his voyage to Acapulco from that kingdom."
Most of the Latinos sent to the Philippines were Mestizos, Mullatoes or Native Americans instead of pure Spaniards. The colonial administration even complained about this...
Letter from Fajardo to Felipe III
"The infantry does not amount to two hundred men, in three companies. If these men were that number, and Spaniards, it would not be so bad; but, although I have not seen them, because they have not yet arrived here, I am told that they are, as at other times, for the most part boys, mestizos, and mulattoes, with some Indians (Native Americans). There is no little cause for regret in the great sums that reënforcements of such men waste for, and cost, your Majesty. I cannot see what betterment there will be until your Majesty shall provide it, since I do not think, that more can be done in Nueva Spańa, although the viceroy must be endeavoring to do so, as he is ordered."
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