Midelburgo, I cannot even describe all this insight and data you have added but for one word...BRILLIANT!
You have completely and resoundingly revised everything I knew (or thought I knew on Spanish and its colonial weapons industries).
Please pardon my exuberance, but understanding these matters has always been important to me, and your well researched detail is so valuable, and I thank you for sharing it here.
Thank you very much!
Jim