Martaban
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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They struck directly at Moulmein, about 170 miles east of Rangoon by the railroad around the Gulf of Martaban.
From Time Magazine Archive
True, Martaban had fallen and Japanese troops had made a second crossing of the treacherous Salween River.
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 register purported that the stranger was the British ship Martaban, belonging to parties in Maulmain, a rice port in India.
From Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States by Semmes, Raphael
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