Aboukir

Village of Egypt, 13 m. n.e. of Alexandria; once venge for a scandalous wrong done to A.'s sister Tamar, and despairing of being nominated David's succe or, he rebelled against his father and drove him acro the Jordan, but was defeated and slain. Absalon, or AXEL, 1128-1201. Abp. of Lund, Primate of and warrior. Aug. 1, 1798, and Bonaparte, with 5,000 French, defeated a Turkish army of 15,000, July 25,1799. It was surrendered to the English, after a sanguinary conflict with the French, March 8, 1801.