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A bridge and gateway linked the two across and through the defences ; a link that was to prove fatal in the final battle for Basing House.
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The WML cards when requested by a device are accessed by a bridge WAP gateway, which sits between mobile devices and the World Wide Web, passing pages from one to the other much like a proxy.
Although the old town bridge there restricts navigation to craft with an airdraft of less than, its quay beyond that abruptly changes the nature of the river from a gentle rural feature to a gateway to the North Sea.
Because of the new roads and bridge built for use during construction, it has become the gateway to the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area and Lake Powell, attracting more than 3 million visitors per year.
The first bridge across the Delaware at Frenchtown was a six-span covered wooden bridge built in 1841 on the five piers that still stand today, and the community became a gateway to Pennsylvania.
The town's most significant feature is its 12th-century Romanesque bridge over the Fluvià river, which features a gateway at its midpoint.
A barbican is a fortified outpost or gateway, such as an outer defence to a city or castle, or any tower situated over a gate or bridge which was used for defensive purposes.
They are also known as bridge pages, portal pages, jump pages, gateway pages, entry pages and by other names.
A wall painting on the bridge tower of Frankfurt am Main, constructed between 1475 and 1507 near the gateway to the Jewish ghetto and demolished in 1801, was an especially notorious example and included a scene of the ritual murder of Simon of Trent.
It also forms the gateway to the Sacramento River Trail, a 35-mile-long trail completed in 2010 that extends along both sides of the river and connects the bridge to the Shasta Dam.
An ancient bridge of two arches crosses the river at Warkworth, with a fortified gateway on the road mounting to the castle.
A stone bridge leads over the moat to the main entrance ; the gateway is guarded by an embrasured turret above and leads to an elongated outer ward.
Old prints show a large gateway in the middle of the south side, a bridge of two arches and steps down to the river.
It has retained some traces of its medieval appearance, especially the main gateway, beneath a watch tower, and reached by a bridge over the old moat. About half an hour distant to the north-east, on the hillside, is the site of the famous battle of Sempach ( 9 July 1386 ), in which the Swiss defeated the Austrians, whose leader, Duke Leopold, lost his life.
The bridge, besides being in disrepair, provides a gateway to an industrial part of the city that the Government of the District of Columbia wants to rejuvenate, including the area around the new Nationals Park for the Washington Nationals, which opened March 30, 2008.
the jury presented that John, earl of Warenne, late Lord of Bromfield, had constructed a bridge across the River Dee ( during 1338 )... and upon that bridge is a fortified gateway ' The jury then claimed that illegal toll was being extorted from workmen daily crossing the bridge, and that the town of Holt was giving shelter to felons who ambushed Cheshire folk
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Admiralty Arch is linked to the Old Admiralty Building by a bridge and is part of the ceremonial route from Trafalgar Square to Buckingham Palace.
The bridge opened on November 1, 1957, ending decades of the two peninsulas being solely linked by ferries.
He linked his two buildings with an arched stone screen, Caröe Bridge, along Pembroke Street in a late Baroque style, the principal function of which was to act as a bridge by which undergraduates might cross the Master's forecourt at first-floor level from Pitt Building to New Court without leaving the College or trespassing in what was then the Fellows ' Garden.
Prior to the completion of the bridge in 1935, Whidbey Island was linked to Fidalgo Island by the Deception Pass ferry, which ran from 1924 to 1935.
These defenses were linked to Ticonderoga with a pontoon bridge that was protected by land batteries on both sides.
Known as Forthside, it has the aim of developing a new waterfront district linked to the railway station via a new pedestrian bridge.
South of Jazirat al Azl, the island of Sitrah, site of the oil export terminal, is linked to Bahrain by a bridge that spans the narrow channel separating the two islands.
The project consists of a terminal building on U. S. soil, adjacent to the border, with parking, check-in counters, and customs offices that would be linked to the Tijuana airport via a bridge crossing the border.
The two are linked by Wallingford Bridge, a 900 ft long mediaeval stone bridge across the river and the adjacent flood plain.
Ghent is on the opposite side of the Ohio River from Vevay, Indiana, but is not linked to it by a bridge.
In 2010, the college began a major new development south of the main site, to which it will be linked by a bridge over Brewer Street.
The final blow came when a bridge linked the South Carolina Rail Road to Augusta allowing traffic to bypass the doomed town of Hamburg.
The strait is believed to have been created by the erosion of a land bridge that linked the Weald in Great Britain to the Boulonnais in the Pas de Calais.
The 11th Parachute Battalion and the rest of the South Staffords were immediately despatched to Arnhem to assist in the attempt to break through to the bridge, where they linked up with the 1st and 3rd Parachute Battalions after dark.
The roots of telecommuting are found in early 1970s technology that linked satellite offices to downtown mainframes by dumb terminals using telephone lines as a network bridge.
Following two high-profile murder-suicides from the bridge in 2011 and 2012, Brisbane Lord Mayor Graham Quirk announced plans to install free telephones linked to suicide prevention hotlines.
Evesham is linked to Bengeworth by Workman Bridge and Hampton by Abbey Bridge, or New Bridge the first completely structural concrete bridge in the country.
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