Aboukir
- a variation of Abukir.
Example Sentences
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Nelson followed Napoleon's fleet through a cloud of unknowing and finally crushed the French in Aboukir Bay.
From Time Magazine Archive
A naval cadet at 15, he was aboard the training ship Hogue when it was torpedoed, was rescued hours later and transferred to the Aboukir which likewise was torpedoed.
From Time Magazine Archive
The future lovers did not meet again until Nelson had lost an eye and an arm and won world-wide fame by demolishing the French fleet in Aboukir Bay.
From Time Magazine Archive
Under Nelson at Aboukir Bay in 1798 and at Trafalgar in 1805 Britain's fleet crushed Napoleon's dream of making France an overseas power.
From Time Magazine Archive
There was a very lucky middy on board the Aboukir when she went down.
From The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 2 (of 10) From the Battle of Mons to the Fall of Antwerp. by Parrott, James Edward
