Port Arthur

1. A city of extreme southeast Texas on Sabine Lake near the Louisiana border. It is a major deep-water port connected by channel with the Gulf of Mexico. Population: 55,700.

2. See Lüshun.

Port Arthur

1. (Placename) a former penal settlement (1833-70) in Australia, on the S coast of the Tasman Peninsula, Tasmania

2. (Placename) the former name of Lüshun

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Noun	1.	Port Arthur - a major port city in northeastern China on the Liaodong Peninsula; now a part of Luda Lushun Cathay, China, Communist China, mainland China, People's Republic of China, PRC, Red China - a communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia; the most populous country in the world Luda, Luta - an industrial conurbation in northeastern China on the southern end of the Liaodong Peninsula; it now includes the cities of Dalian and Lushun
	2.	Port Arthur - a battle in the Chino-Japanese War (1894); Japanese captured the port and fortifications from the Chinese Manchuria - a region in northeastern China

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mainland China
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When the wire had been basted up this hill to the summit, the fortress of Port Arthur lay at their mercy.

The History of the Telephone by Casson, Herbert N. View in context

The sort of thing the English did at Alexandria, the Japanese at Port Arthur, the French at Casablanca, is going on everywhere.

The War in the Air by Wells, H.G. View in context

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