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
The thirteen men-of-war which had escorted the expedition were found by Admiral Nelson in Aboukir Bay, moored close to the coast in a line guarded at either end by gunboats and batteries.
From History of the English People, Volume VIII Modern England, 1760-1815 by John Richard Green
On nearing Alexandria the second time, August 1st, he had the pleasure of seeing the object of his toilsome cruise moored in Aboukir Bay, in line of battle.
From Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 2 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne
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