disembarkationn.
The action of disembarking.
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a1776 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth (1790) III. xxviii No proper measures were yet consulted for their disembarkation.
1808 Convent. Evac. Portugal §20 in Napier Penins. War (1828) I. App. p. xliii On the disembarkation of the French troops in their own country.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. 651 Tourville determined to try what effect would be produced by a disembarkation.
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