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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 See also:

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

It was taken from the Spanish by an See also:

American See also:squadron under See also:Commodore See also:George See also:Dewey inMay1898.

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