 "Manilamen" recruited from San Blas joined the Argentinian of French descent, Hypolite Bouchard in the assault of Spanish California during the Argentinian War of Independence.Filipinos in Mexico serving under the Filipino-Mexican General Isidoro Montes de Oca assisted Vicente Guerrero in the Mexican war of independence against Spain.Luzon then produced another great General, this time, for the Spanish Empire, in the person of Marcelo Azcárraga Palmero who became Prime-Minister of Spain.