Fort Hughes
Fort Hughes was built by the Philippine Department of the U.S. Army on Caballo Island in the Philippines in the early 1900s. The fort, which part of the Harbor Defenses of Manila and Subic Bays, was named for Major General Robert Patterson Hughes, a veteran of the American Civil War, Spanish–American War, and the Philippine–American War.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Corregidor Island and Caballo Island.
Corregidor Island
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Corregidor Island is a small island in the Philippines. It is well-known for its strategic situation at the opening of Manila Bay.
Caballo Island
Islet
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Caballo Island is a bluff, rocky island located at the entrance to Manila Bay in the Philippines. It is about 1.2 km long with the highest elevation at 381 feet high.
Malinta Tunnel
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The Malinta Tunnel is a tunnel complex built by the United States Army Corps of Engineers on the island of Corregidor in the Philippines. It was initially used as a bomb-proof storage and personnel bunker, but was later equipped as a 1,000-bed hospital. Malinta Tunnel is situated 4 km northwest of Fort Hughes.
Fort Hughes
- Type: Fort
- Description: WW2-era fort in the Philippines
- Categories: tourist attraction and tourism
- Location: Bataan, Central Luzon, Luzon, Philippines, Southeast Asia, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Chinese—“Fort Hughes” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Fort Hughes”
- Chinese: “休斯堡”
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