 The Spanish incorporated the archipelago to the Spanish East Indies through the capital, Manila, and in the 19th century established a number of outposts and missions.In 1887, they founded the town of "Santiago de la Ascension" in what today is Kolonia on the island of Pohnpei.Following defeat in the Spanish–American War, the Spanish sold the archipelago to Germany in 1899 under the German–Spanish Treaty of 1899.