corregidor

Noun

Meaning

The chief magistrate of a Spanish town.

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This year's commemoration becomes even more meaningful because the great sacrifice our soldiers made, not only in the battlefields of Bataan and Corregidor but in the ensuing resistance campaigns, has finally been recognized, however late in the day, by the United States. Francis Escudero

Corregidor surrendered last night. Poor Wainwright! He did the fighting... [MacArthur] got such glory as the public could find... MacArthur's tirades, to which TJ and I so often listened to in Manila, would now sound as silly to the public as they then did to us. But he's a hero! Yah. Douglas MacArthur

Corregidor village chair Rommel Porpayas who witnessed the distribution of relief goods, vowed to his constituents that they would establish a communal farm on the island. Source: Internet

Under the pressure of superior numbers, the defending forces withdrew to the Bataan Peninsula and to the island of Corregidor at the entrance to Manila Bay. Source: Internet

Before the surrender came into effect, he transferred his female army nurses to Corregidor in the hope that they might be evacuated from the Philippines. Source: Internet

One of these places is the Corregidor Island when you can have the nice views of Manila skyline and the mountains of Bataan and cavite. Source: Internet

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