Cainta

Cainta was a fortified Tagalog settlement on the river draining Laguna de Bay, east of Manila. Its bamboo walls, moats and bronze lantaka cannon guarded the approaches.

In 1571 Miguel López de Legazpi sent his nephew Juan de Salcedo with Spanish soldiers and Visayan allies against Cainta and Taytay. The chiefs rejected peace, but mortar fire and an assault over the walls took Cainta for Spain. During the British occupation of Manila in 1762 and 1763, mutinous Tamil sepoys settled there and married local Tagalogs.