Philippines has a great potential. An independent 1st Republic within the US sphere of influence that does not screw up, or a post 1945 with Magsaysay surviving, EcoBoom TL is a good TL that works off that. 1823 is a great potential for the Philippines to become a major regional power in Southeast and East Asia. Novales Revolt is going to be included in a TL I am working on.
By the way, do any of you have the numbers of the of naval ships Spain had for the Spanish East Indies? It will really help on my TL.
I don't have a link to the post here but from what I have read on the matter the Spanish Navy got pretty beat up at the battle of Trafalgar and their numbers were in a bit of a slump after that. I am not sure of the numbers in the area of the Philippines but the person who had posted the information stated that there were 150 ships of various types in the entire navy around that time with plans to build another 102. The title of the post is Spanish Navy, 1780-1820. I hope this helps.