Seadragon (SSN 584) - Naval Cruise Book

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'Zi mf if Jef, I in its nearly four hundred years of existence, Manila has grown from a small garrison town to a teeming metropolis of two and one-half million people, Manila was first settled by the Spanish in 1571 and quickly became the seat of Spanish government. Its im- portance in commerce 'is at- tested' to be the English efforts to sink the Manila Galleon dur- ing the seventeenth Century, During the Seven Years War, Manila was captured bythe British who held the city for two years before returning it to Spain in 1764, RCU D AN The heart of Manila is the striking and moving Intramuros, the Walled city, which was destroyed during World War II. IH' iii 'As their guide explains the points of interest on the Pasig River, Jack Everett, Don Lacy, John Wilton, Ray Witter, and Willie Williams check the situation from all angles. tramuros is the original Manila, the inner city. After the War only one church, the Church of St. Augustine, was left standing. The Last Japanese stronghold in the Philip' pines was Intramuros, and in the throes of defeat they executed a large number of Filipinos by imp1'iS011iHg them in dungeons similar to the one pictured on the previous page. Reconstruction of this section of Mantis, is just beginning. i 36 in

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The first American business in the Philippines was established in 1825, beginning a growing U,S, interest in the Archipelago that culminated in annexation after the Spanish-American War. American plans for Philippine Independence were interrupted by World War II but in 1946 the Philippines became an in- dependent Republic with Manila as its seat of government. Although Tagalog is the of- ficial language, Englishis spoken by most Filipinos, with a small number still speaking Spanish. Fort Santiago across the playing fields of Marula Everyone look at the camera Please QTY!