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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Examples from the Web for gaeta

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