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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 582 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CAVITE  , a fortified seaport, the

capital of the province of Cavite, Luzon, Philippine Islands, and the seat of the
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principal
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Asiatic
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naval station of the
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United States, on a forked tongue of
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land in
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Manila
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Bay, 8 in . S. of the city of Manila . Pop . (1903) 4494; with the barrios of
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San Roque and Caridad (on the main peninsula), which are under the municipal government of Cavite (15,630) . Cavite is the
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terminus of a railway which follows the
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shore of the bay from Manila . The
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northern
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part of the
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town, Sangley Point (one of the two forks of the main peninsula), is the principal coaling station of the U.S.
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fleet in Asiatic waters . The naval station proper and the old town of Cavite are on the south fork of the peninsula . Cavite's buildings are mostly of stone, with upper storeys of wood; its streets are narrow and crooked . It has five churches (one of these is an
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independent Filipino church), and is the seat of a provincial high school . Cavite has long been the principal naval
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base of the Philippine Islands, and one of the four
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Spanish penitentiaries in the Islands was here . During the 19th century Cavite was the centre of
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political disturbances in the Philippines; in 1896 on the parade ground thirteen political prisoners were executed, and to their memory a monument was erected in 1906 at the head of the isthmus connecting with the main peninsula . The town was nearly destroyed by an
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earthquake in 1880 .

It was taken from the Spanish by an

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American
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squadron under Commodore George Dewey inMay1898 .

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