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Cavite

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Ca·vi·te  (k-vt, kä-vt)
A city of southwest Luzon, Philippines, on Manila Bay southwest of Manila. It has been an important naval base since Spanish times. The American facilities here were virtually destroyed in bombing raids by the Japanese on December 10, 1941. Population: 99,300.


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He was also known to have delivered an "inspiring speech" to strikers at the Cavite shipyard in November 1902 and to have co-addressed a petition to President Roosevelt to halt Chinese migration in February 1903.
8, 1941, found my career navy man father on board his ship in Manila Bay as the Japanese bombed the Cavite shipyard and ships in the bay ("Home Alone" by Clara Bingham, April).
John Sidel masterfully chronicles the "emergence, location and longevity" of a wide assortment of local bosses and dynasties in the provinces of Cavite and Cebu, and his insights necessitate considerable reformulation of previous understandings of Philippine politics and the character of "local strongmen" more generally.
 
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