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
True, Martaban had fallen and Japanese troops had made a second crossing of the treacherous Salween River.
From Time Magazine Archive
They struck directly at Moulmein, about 170 miles east of Rangoon by the railroad around the Gulf of Martaban.
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
The town of Martaban was the centre of the Burmese military power in Tenasserim, and the advance towards it of the Siamese army would place it in direct communication with that of Burma.
From On the Irrawaddy A Story of the First Burmese War by Overend, William Heysham
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