corregidor in English

noun
1
an island in the Philippines, just south of the Bataan Peninsula on Luzon Island, scene of World War II battles and now a national shrine.

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1. They reached Hawaii too late to relieve Corregidor.

2. 5: Heavy Japanese artillery attack on Corregidor.

3. Corregidor Courts/Bougainville families can access the Corregidor Courts/Bougainville Community Center’s fitness room via “key fob” from 5 a.m

4. Corregidor Courts/Bougainville residents can use any Community Center during normal business hours.

5. Japan fully captured the Philippines on May 6, 1942, after the Battle of Corregidor.

6. After the 15 February paratroop landing on Corregidor, the destroyer provided call fire and night illumination fire.

7. Meanwhile, preparations were being made for assaults on Bataan and Corregidor—the scene of the humiliating disasters for the United States and her Filipino allies three years before.

8. As the ships worked their way into an area between Corregidor and Carabao Islands, Japanese shore batteries emplaced on those islands and on Caballo began to lob shells at the minecraft and their escorts.

9. The Angels of Bataan (also known as the "Angels of Bataan and Corregidor" and "The Battling Belles of Bataan") were the members of the United States Army Nurse Corps and the United States Navy Nurse Corps who were stationed in the Philippines at the outset of the Pacific War and served during the Battle of the Philippines (1941–42).When Bataan and Corregidor fell, 11 Navy nurses, 66 army

10. Capitulated to our force, and a Treaty was signed between our Commanders and the Governor and Corregidor of Guayaquil, sundry proceedings took place that would not very well have squared with the public ideas of what is due to the Fair Sex just treated of; but I declare that I had neither Art nor Part in them, and that I am entirely Free from any

11. The Alcade, or chief judge, was for putting him into the town prison; but this was objected to, particularly by the corregidor, who said, in Spanish, "In order to prevent the knowledge of his confinement from reaching his countrymen, I will take the matter on myself, and be answerable for the consequences;" upon which it was agreed, that he