1) Bataan 2) Beleaguering 3) Besieging 4) Historic fortress of 1942 5) Island in the philippines 6) Island of Manila Bay 7) Military blockade 8) Siege
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1) Bataan
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[position] A corregidor was a local, administrative and judicial position in Spain and its empire. He was the highest authority of a Corregimiento. In the Americas a corregidor was often called an alcalde mayor. They began to be appointed in fourteenth century Castile and the institution was definitively abolished in 1833. They were the rep...
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• (n.) The chief magistrate of a Spanish town.
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(from the article `Wolf, Hugo`) ...Geibel, appeared in 1891, followed by the Italienisches Liederbuch (part 1, 1892; part 2, 1896). Other song cycles were on poems of Henrik Ibsen ...
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(Spanish: `magistrate,` literally `corrector`), Spanish government official, first appointed by King Alfonso XI of Castile in the 14th century and ... [2 related articles]
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Island fortress off the Bataan Peninsula at the mouth of Manila Bay, Luzon, the Philippines. On 6 May 1942, Japanese forces captured Corregidor and its 10,000 US and Filipino defenders, completing...
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Cor·reg'i·dor noun [ Spanish , orig., a corrector.] The chief magistrate of a Spanish town.
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The USS Corregidor was an American Casablanca Class light fleet aircraft carrier of 6730 tons displacement launched in 1943. The USS Corregidor had a top speed of 18 knots and carried a complement of 800 and about 30 aircraft. She was armed with one 5 inch gun and twenty-four 20 mm anti-aircraft guns.
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the chief magistrate of a town in Spain. · (in Spanish America) · a minor administrative unit. · the chief officer of such a district.
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The official, usually a white or cholo , in postindependence Bolivia charged with administering local Indian affairs.
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