Martaban
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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True, Martaban had fallen and Japanese troops had made a second crossing of the treacherous Salween River.
From Time Magazine Archive
But Martaban, choked with decades of the Salween's silt, has little or no strategic value as a port for water-borne assault against Rangoon, across the Martaban Gulf.
From Time Magazine Archive
The invaders drove from Siam into extreme Lower Burma, and then around the Gulf of Martaban to ruined, abandoned Rangoon.
From Time Magazine Archive
They all run southward, through Upper Burma to the rice fields of the south, and then into the Gulf of Martaban and the Bay of Bengal.
From Time Magazine Archive
The vessel I found was the Martaban of Maulmain, Captain Pike, from Maulmain to Singapore, rice laden.
From The Cruise of the Alabama and the Sumter by Semmes, Raphael
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