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  • proper noun Alternative spelling of Aboukir.

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  • noun a bay on the Mediterranean Sea in northern Egypt

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Examples

  • The French defeated an Ottoman force at Abukir (July 1799) and then at Heliopolis (March 20, 1800), but a joint Ottoman-British force finally obtained French surrender and evacuation (Sept. 1801).

    1788-1840 2001

  • The Ottomans, supported by the British, then defeated Napoleon's army at Abukir (July 25, 1799) after it returned from an unsuccessful campaign in Syria.

    1797-1801 2001

  • The British fleet destroyed the French ships off Abukir (Aug. 1), isolating the troops from France.

    1788-1840 2001

  • British admiral Horatio Nelson destroyed the French fleet anchored in the harbor of Abukir.

    1797-1801 2001

  • August 1 he French fleet is destroyed by the British in the Battle of the Nile at Abukir.

    Tales of Passion, Tales of Woe Sandra Gulland 2000

  • August 1 he French fleet is destroyed by the British in the Battle of the Nile at Abukir.

    Tales of Passion, Tales of Woe Sandra Gulland 2000

  • Military history shows that after boldly carried out landings at Abukir and Cape Breton, for example, the success of the extensive operations was impaired, almost lost, because of lack of energy and rapidity of execution of offensive movements.

    Operations Upon the Sea A Study Franz Edelsheim

  • We went out by Gibraltar, flew to Cairo, to Abukir, near Alexandria, where we had a major overhaul.

    The Japanese Ceylon Attack 1945

  • Little of Alexandria could be seen except the sea front and the southern and eastern portions which the railway skirted in its way out between the large shallow lakes, Mariut and Abukir, into the

    The 28th: A Record of War Service in the Australian Imperial Force, 1915-19, Vol. I Egypt, Gallipoli, Lemnos Island, Sinai Peninsula Herbert Brayley Collett 1912

  • For some time after leaving the city the railway was followed, until they arrived at the neck of land that separates the lakes Mariut and Abukir, then, leaving the road entirely, Captain Forsyth edged away from the railway and skirted along the south-west bank of Lake Abukir.

    Under the Rebel's Reign Charles Neufeld 1901

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