Word: abukir
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British anti-aircraft guns, the mouth of Alexandria's harbor was crammed with British war boats. From England and from India brigades of infantry poured in. Squadron after squadron of British battle planes arrived via Greece to settle down on the well-sandbagged British air base back of Abukir Bay where Lord Nelson demolished a French fleet and "the boy stood on the burning deck...