Martaban
Americannoun
noun
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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
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
British East Indies Fleet units, standing in to the Gulf of Martaban, shelled the flatlands south of Rangoon.
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
At last, after great labour--incurred by the ships constantly getting ashore--they succeeded in making their way up to Martaban, and anchored off the town.
From On the Irrawaddy A Story of the First Burmese War by Overend, William Heysham
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