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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 9558393, member: 2844&quot;]It wouldn&#039;t have been a Philippine Army, but Spanish colonial forces, which included Filipinos.</p><p>So maybe search for &quot;Spanish colonial forces in the Philippines&quot;, or &quot;Spanish Colonial Army in the Philippines&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>When the Dutch VOC occupied parts of Formosa (Taiwan) in the first half of the 17th century, they did so with help of Filipinos who were previously enlisted into the Spanish colonial army. The Spanish colonial army was defeated, and the Filipino soldiers went on to fight for the Dutch instead.</p><p><br /></p><p>Asian Colonial history is very complicated, with land changing hands so many times, and native soldiers also occasionally changing sides.</p><p>But the fact remains that there were native Filipino soldiers fighting for colonial Spain (and the VOC) in the 17th century.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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