| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| Bataan |
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| SYLLABICATION: | Ba·taan |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  b -t n , -tän |
| A peninsula of western Luzon, Philippines, between Manila Bay and the South China Sea. After an extended siege U.S. and Philippine World War II troops surrendered to the Japanese in April 1942. U.S. forces recaptured the peninsula in February 1945.
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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