Legazpi's original fotress compound, Intramuros, was leveled by the Japanese defenders of this city in 1945.
Miguel Lopez de Legazpi founded it at the mouth of the Pasig River in 1571. It attracted a British fleet that captured it at the end of the Seven Years War, but it was returned to the previous owners by the Peace of Paris. The British had attempted to interdict the commercial traffic between Acapulco and this port, consisting of namesake "galleons" often wrecked on the coast of California. Legazpi's original fotress compound, Intramuros, was leveled by the Japanese defenders of this city in 1945. During the rebuilding process, the government spent thirty years in suburban Quezon City.  FTP, name this city in whose bay Admiral Dewey defeated the Spanish fleet, the capital of the Philippines.
Miguel Lopez de Legazpi founded it at the mouth of the Pasig River in 1571.
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