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On entering the bay opposite the other point, which is called Batan, is:
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[possible] encounter not be avoided, but that express orders be given to the commander of this relief expedition to follow the routes taken by the enemy and to reconnoiter their chief factory of Batan, which is not fortified.
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I'll bet if you went back and asked an American GI in a Nazi concentration camp, or on the Batan death march, or even a Japanese school child in Hiroshima they would say the same thing about their enemy.
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I'll bet if you went back and asked an American GI in a Nazi concentration camp, or on the Batan death march, or even a Japanese school child in Hiroshima they would say the same thing about their enemy.
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"Operations had been shut down because of militant activity, but production from the Batan field resumed earlier this year and is currently producing circa 15,000 barrels of oil per day," Shell said.
Shell Sells Oil Stakes in Nigeria Alexis Flynn 2011
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And, unless I greatly misread him, I believe we bonded as friends during our endless death march to Batan.
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Batan PIT 0 0 0 0 .000 J. Corbett PIT 0 0 0 0 .000
USATODAY.com 2003
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At sixteen, burning for the reefs he had discovered in books like The Wonders of Great Barrier, he left Whitehorse for good and crewed sailboats through the tropics: Sanibel Island, St. Lucia, the Batan Islands, Colombo, Bora Bora, Cairns, Mombassa, Moorea.
The Shell Collector : Stories Anthony Doerr 2002
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At sixteen, burning for the reefs he had discovered in books like The Wonders of Great Barrier, he left Whitehorse for good and crewed sailboats through the tropics: Sanibel Island, St. Lucia, the Batan Islands, Colombo, Bora Bora, Cairns, Mombassa, Moorea.
The Shell Collector : Stories Anthony Doerr 2002
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At sixteen, burning for the reefs he had discovered in books like The Wonders of Great Barrier, he left Whitehorse for good and crewed sailboats through the tropics: Sanibel Island, St. Lucia, the Batan Islands, Colombo, Bora Bora, Cairns, Mombassa, Moorea.
The Shell Collector : Stories Anthony Doerr 2002
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