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The peninsula and island in the Philippines where Japanese forces besieged American forces in World War II
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corregidor
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The chief magistrate of a Spanish town.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Corregidor \Cor*reg"i*dor\ (k?r-r?j"?-d?r; Sp. k?r-r?`h?-d?r"), n. [Sp., orig., a corrector.] The chief magistrate of a Spanish town.
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Corregidor Island , locally called Isla ng Corregidor , is an island located at the entrance of Manila Bay in southwestern part of Luzon Island in the Philippines . Due to this location, Corregidor was fortified with several coastal artillery and ammunition ...
Usage examples of corregidor.
Corregidor was an island in Manila Bay two miles off the tip of Bataan, about thirty miles from the capital of the Philippines, Manila.
Corregidor and Bataan and Luzon, make your way to one of the other islands, maybe Mindanao, and take off for the hills.
Corregidor and Bataan before escaping to Australia, where Mel was killed in an accident on an American air base.
The stone was preserved with much veneration in the Ynti-cancha until the year 1559 when, the licentiate Polo Ondegardo being Corregidor of Cuzco, found it and took it away from where it was adored and venerated by all the Incas, in the village of Bimbilla near Cuzco.
The Corregidor, Santiago Pindo and Don Pantaleon Caynari, in their love for us, have written to us of certain birds which they desire we will send them for the King.
Corregidor was not to get the initial break into the new superencipherment until December 8.
After the Federation armada had mysteriously shifted its offensive away from Abowaku to the Corregidor shoal zone, several regular transports from the Archduchy had arrived at the fortress, and Claret Harmine had been aboard one.
For a few days following, other problems and activities claimed most of the corregidors attention, and Manco was left helpless in the charge of Francisco de Solares, Alonso de Mesa, Alonso de Toro, Pedro Pizarro (an adolescent cousin of the Governor), and Gregorio Setiel.
On the other hand, this is a province governed under the Emperor Charles, and you must conform to the wishes of the Governor sent by His Majesty, and to the orders of that Governor's corregidors when he himself is absent.
There must be no mistake this time as there was when we were working for Japan and almost had the blue prints of Corregidor at Manila only to lose them on the streets of Calcutta.
The point of view swoops and zooms in on Corregidor where a hokily, badly rendered fire blazes up.
He planted his arms on the railing and gazed across the water at the island of Corregidor as the Oregon sailed out of Manila Bay.
Wainwright, USA, had surrendered the fortress of Corregidor, in Manila Bay, to the Japanese.
This time, instead of a bonfire on Corregidor, there's a microwave horn up on a tower on the isle's summit, gunning electric-blue sine waves at the sprawl of Metro Manila.