Aboukir Bay

British  

/ ˌæbuːˈkɪə /

noun

1. Arabic name: Abu Qîr.  a bay on the N coast of Egypt, where the Nile enters the Mediterranean: site of the Battle of the Nile (1798), in which Nelson defeated the French fleet

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Example Sentences

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

Nelson followed Napoleon's fleet through a cloud of unknowing and finally crushed the French 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

Instead of doing this, however, he anchored in Aboukir Bay, and there waited.

From At Aboukir and Acre A Story of Napoleon's Invasion of Egypt by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)

Another writer compares the roar to the sound of a vast mill; and this similitude, more flowery than poetical, is perhaps as good as that of the one who was in Aboukir Bay.

From The Great Lone Land A Narrative of Travel and Adventure in the North-West of America by Butler, William Francis