Aboukir (Abou`kir) , village near Alexandria, in Egypt, on the bay near which Nelson destroyed the French fleet in 1799; where Napoleon beat the Turks, 1799; and where Abercrombie fell, 1801.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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