<P> Almost as soon as war had been declared with Spain, orders had been despatched for a British force at Madras to proceed to the Philippines and invade Manila . A combined force of 10,700 men under William Draper set off from India in late July, arriving in Manila Bay in September 1762 . They had to move swiftly before the monsoon season hit . On 6 October the British stormed the city, capturing it . A large amount of plunder was taken from the city after the Battle of Manila . </P> <P> Spanish forces regrouped under Simon Anda, who had escaped from Manila during the siege . Rebellions fomented by the British were sabotaged by Spanish agents and crushed by Spanish forces . The British were prevented from extending their authority beyond Manila and the nearby port of Cavite . All agreements made between the British commander and Archbishop Rojo were dismissed as illegal . Eventually the British forces started to suffer troop desertions and dissensions within the command . </P> <P> Because news of the city's capture didn't reach Europe until after the Treaty of Paris, no provision was made regarding its status . During the siege, the Spanish lieutenant governor had agreed to a four million payment in silver dollars to the British known as the Manila Ransom in exchange for sparing the city but the full amount was never paid when word of what had happened in the Philippines reached Europe . The Spanish government demanded compensation for crimes committed against the residents of Manila during the occupation and the controversy over the ransom demanded by the British and the compensation demanded by the Spanish lasted many years . The twenty month occupation of Manila ended in 1764 . </P> <P> One of the earliest schemes Pitt had for colonial expeditions was in West Africa where France had several lucrative but strategically unimportant bases . He was fighting against a great deal of scepticism in the British government, which saw Europe as the main venue of warfare and all other theatres as costly distractions . As an initial test of his strategy Pitt gained support for a British expedition proposed by a New York merchant Thomas Cumming to take the French trading station at Fort Louis on the Senegal River which they did with relative ease, carrying back a large amount of plunder to Britain . Subsequent expeditions also took out French posts at Gorée and on the River Gambia . </P>

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