"Corregidor" značenje u engleski leksikon

Množina: Corregidors

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 their conquest of the Philippines. US forces recaptured Corregidor in a combined air and sea operation 6 Feb 1945.
The US Army fortified the island 1905–12 to form the major coastal defense protecting the entrance to the Bay, with 35 guns of calibers ranging from 3 in to 12 in distributed among 14 batteries.

Množina: corregidors

(Spanish) magistrate.