Port Lyautey

/ ljəʊˈteɪ /

noun

1. the former name (1932–56) of Kénitra

Example Sentences

He presides over a flood of operational, intelligence and logistics reports that range from one end of his command at the Navy base at Port Lyautey, Morocco, to the other end in the Persian Gulf, where the Navy maintains a little-heralded and could-be-boosted force of one seaplane tender and two destroyers.

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On top of a low hill in Port Lyautey's medina is a dusty sheep market.

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The man whose job it was to preside over the ratissage was 55-year-old Jean Husson, Port Lyautey's civilian controleur, and a civil affairs officer in Morocco for 33 years.

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The office of the French Resident General in Rabat announced tersely that a ratissage had been held in Port Lyautey, and that in the course of the roundup, 20 Arabs died.

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At Port Lyautey, Arabs stabbed a Frenchwoman, strangled her daughter, castrated two French soldiers on patrol.

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