Aboukir Bay
Britishnoun
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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
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
Aboukir Bay begins at a promontory of the same name, and, after curving boldly south, extends eastward eighteen miles, terminating at the Rosetta mouth of the Nile.
From The Life of Nelson, Volume 1 The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan
There was hardly a dry eye in the ship when the kindly old man’s hammock was dropped overboard in Aboukir Bay.
From As We Sweep Through The Deep by Gordon Stables
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