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Dewey. See note on “A Ballad of Manila Bay,” by Charles George Douglas
Roberts.
=Stanza 1.= =Bocagrande= (large mouth), the main channel into Manila Bay
south of Corregidor Island. The northerly channel is called Bocachica
(small mouth).
=Corregidor.= See “A Ballad of Manila Bay.”
=Stanza 6.= =Cavité.= See “A Ballad of Manila Bay.”
=Stanza 7.= =Montojo= (Admiral Patricio Montojo y Pasaron), the commander of
the Spanish naval forces in the Philippines.
=Stanza 8.= =Farragut.= See “The River Fight.”
=Stanza 12.= =Gridley= (Charles Vernon, 1845-1898), the captain of Admiral
Dewey’s flagship, the _Olympia_.