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The Corregedor in the Azores was the most important judicial magistrate, judging at the second tier, providing appeals and conflicts between presiding judges and ouvidors (the counsels, of the Captains-General). [1]
In Indian areas the office was known as the corregidor de indios. Corregidores essentially had the same powers and duties as governors (gobernadores), except that whereas the latter ruled over a province-sized area (called variously a gobernación or a provincia), the corregidor administered a district-sized corregimiento.
María Josefa Crescencia Ortiz Téllez–Girón, [1] popularly known as Doña Josefa Ortiz de Domínguez or La Corregidora (8 September 1768 – 2 March 1829 [2]) was an insurgent and supporter of the Mexican War of Independence, which fought for independence against Spain, in the early 19th century.
The island's biggest area, which points towards the South China Sea, rises prominently to a large flat area that is called "Topside".Beneath this was the fortified communications center of the island, as well as the location for the Army headquarters, barracks for enlisted men, a branch of the Philippine Trust Co. bank, the Cine Corregidor movie theater, officers' quarters, underground ...
Wainwright, nicknamed "Skinny" and "Jim", was born at Fort Walla Walla, a former Army post near Walla Walla, Washington.His father was a U.S. Army officer who was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the 1st Cavalry in 1875, rose to the rank of major, commanded a squadron of the 5th Cavalry at the Battle of Santiago de Cuba during the Spanish–American War, and, in 1902, died of disease in the ...
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The Los Angeles Lakers lost Anthony Davis to injury in a blowout defeat to a shorthanded Philadelphia 76ers team on Tuesday. Davis left with an abdominal muscle strain with 2:10 remaining in the ...
Corregidor is an island in the Philippines.. Corregidor may also refer to: . Corregidor (position), a Spanish judicial or administrative position The Battle of Corregidor (1942), the World War II battle in which Japan took control of Corregidor Island, leading to the capture and occupation of the Philippines by Japan