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Manila Bay (Filipino: Look ng Maynila; Spanish: Bahía de Manila) is a natural harbor that serves the Port of Manila (on Luzon), in the Philippines.Strategically located around the capital city of the Philippines, Manila Bay facilitated commerce and trade between the Philippines and its neighboring countries, [1] becoming the gateway for socio-economic development even prior to Spanish occupation.
The now-abandoned fort was named after Brigadier General Richard C. Drum, [2] who served with distinction during the Mexican–American War and the American Civil War, and died on October 15, 1909, the year of the fort's construction. The island and the other former harbor defenses of Manila Bay fall under the jurisdiction of Cavite City. [3]
In this composite image you can see Manila Bay and the city of Manila on its eastern coast, The Philippines, imaged by the Operational Land Imager (OLI) aboard Landsat 8. The images were taken February 13th, 2016 at 2:17am GMT.
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The Portuguese first established a presence in Maritime Southeast Asia with their capture of Malacca in 1511, [61] and their contacts with the seafarers they described as Luções (lit. people from "lusong", the area now known as Manila Bay) [62] became the first European accounts of the Tagalog people, [63] as Anthony Reid recounts:
Cavite Boulevard was part of Architect Daniel Burnham's plan to beautify the city of Manila. [11] At the request of Commissioner William Cameron Forbes, Burnham visited the country in 1905 at the height of the City Beautiful movement, a trend in the early 1900s in America to make cities beautiful along scientific lines, for the future urban development of Manila and Baguio.
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[7] [8] Theodore Roosevelt, who was at that time Assistant Secretary of the Navy, had ordered Commodore George Dewey, commanding the Asiatic Squadron of the United States Navy, to Hong Kong before the declaration of war. From there, Dewey's squadron departed on April 27 for the Philippines, reaching Manila Bay on the evening of April 30. [9]