Gaeta

[ gah-ey-tuh; Italian gah-e-tah ]

/ gɑˈeɪ tə; Italian gɑˈɛ tɑ /

a seaport in W central Italy, on the Gulf of Gaeta off the Tyrrhenian Sea.

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Napoleon still kept his troops at Gaeta, but was finally brought to see that the conflict could only end in the one way.
Builders of United Italy|Rupert Sargent Holland
The command devolved upon the Marquis of Mantua, who marched on Gaeta.
A Popular History of France From The Earliest Times|Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot
Remaining at Gaeta, he sent a commission of cardinals to take over the government of Rome.
A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year|Edwin Emerson
But we had not got as far as Gaeta when a storm came up and we were driven out to sea.
Stradella|F(rancis) Marion Crawford

Ten days later the Pope fled to Gaeta, and his experiments in 'reform' came to a final end.
The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2)|Frederic G. Kenyon