Pigs,Bay of

Pigs,Bay of
Pigs (pĭgz), Bay of
A small inlet of the Caribbean Sea on the southern coast of western Cuba. It was the site of an ill-fated invasion on April 17, 1961, when a force of 1,500 U.S.-trained guerrilla troops landed in an attempt to overthrow the government of Fidel Castro.

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  • Bay of Pigs — bay in Cuba (site of a failed invasion of Cuba by Cuban exiles in 1961) …   English contemporary dictionary

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