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A lifesize model of a Swedish 1850s horse artillery team towing a light artillery piece at full gallop on display at the Swedish Army Museum | Army Museum in Stockholm, Sweden.
Even so, the River Don Navigation was improved from Tinsley to Rotherham in 1751, but the horse towing path was not completed on this section until 1822.
One problem with the horse towing path where it passed under a bridge was abrasion of the rope on the bridge arch.
When the towpath changed sides, it was necessary to take the towing horse and its driver across the river.
As diesel and steam replaced the tow horse in the early twentieth century, it became possible to move more cargo with the same manpower by towing a second unpowered boat, commonly referred to as a " butty ", " buttyboat " or " butty boat ".
By the middle of the 18th century, horse towing had largely taken over and steam tugs came in 1834 to cross the Étang.
A horse towing path was added in 1808, but only up to Hereford ; previously, as on the River Severn, barges were man-hauled.
1904 trials with a new design, including both horse and mechanised towing, resulted in further changes but in 1905 the design for the BL 60 pounder was accepted, although it was still a half ton over the target weight.
Some variants in equipment attach two towing lines to either the back of a saddle or the breastplate on the horse.
Whereas horse artillery has been superseded by self-propelled artillery, field artillery has survived to this day both in name and mission, albeit with motor vehicles towing the guns, carrying the crews and transporting the ammunition.
A lifesize model of a Swedish 1850s horse artillery team towing a light artillery piece ( Swedish Army Museum, Stockholm.

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The same romance also endows him with such gifts from the sea god Manannán as the sword Fragarach, the horse Enbarr ( Aonbarr ), the boat Wave-Sweeper, his armor and helmet.
* Experiment ( horse powered boat )
A horse-drawn " stone boat ", a sled used in horse pulling competition, Spring Fair, Woolbrook, NSW
Blacky is somewhat pacified, but still decides to humiliate Marko by riding him like a horse around the boat deck while the band is playing.
He abandons the horse and gets into the boat, discovering that it has no oars or sail.
James Law was the minister for several isolated townships, and had to travel between them by horse, boat and on foot.
The acting is based on allusion: gestures, footwork, and other body movements express such actions as riding a horse, rowing a boat, or opening a door.
Until the late 19th century, the different varieties of Cheshire cheeses were aged to a sufficient level of hardness to withstand the rigours of transport ( by horse and cart, and later by boat ) to London for sale.
On his honeymoon in Italy in 1919, Cole dropped horse manure onto Venice's Piazza San Marco — which could be reached only by boat.
It would use two new boat-lift structures, with horses ' heads around tall .< ref > Models of the Kelpie ( mythological horse ) heads planned for use in this new boat lift can be seen at the basin of the Falkirk Wheel.
He took a coach to Blackfriars Stairs, a boat up the River Thames to the horse ferry in Westminster, near the warehouse where he hid his stolen goods, and made good his escape.
Attractions such as the great kauri trees of the Waipoua Forest ( including the country's tallest tree, Tane Mahuta ), the historic waterfront villages of Kohukohu and Rawene, cafes, the Horeke basalts, beaches, historic buildings, nature walks, horse trekking, boat trips, and fishing are bringing more visitors every year.
While Garfield rambled on and on, Mr. Wilson hitched up his horse and buggy and raced to the harbor and asked Captain Bunn to get off his boat and accompany him back to the school.
A horse-drawn boat or tow-boat is a historic boat operating on a canal, pulled by a horse walking on a special road along the canal, the towpath.
* Experiment ( horse powered boat )
The town is easily accessible and ideally located for a day trip, family holiday, or as a base for a walking, golf, fishing or touring holiday, by car, canal boat, horse or bike.
Other popular village games and sports were horse races, bullfights, cockfights, flying pigeons, and boat racing.
At this time the only methods of transport between Klang and Kuala Lumpur were by horse or buffalo drawn wagons, or boat ride along the Klang River to Damansara.
( C / U ) shot of another details-a little boat, soldiers marching, a man and his horse ... Voiceover talks about what this represents: " Scotland after the ' 45 rebellion, showing the English troops occupying a castle, and the opposing Highland rebels of Bonnie Prince Charlie.
For example, a whip is used to indicate a horse and an oar symbolizes a boat.

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`` The road's washed badly '', said Dill, `` but there's a trail you can get over with a horse.
The horse walked, the reins were slack, the huckster rode with bowed shoulders, his forearms across his knees.
Opposite every gate was a hitching post or a stone carriage-step, set with a rusty iron ring for tying a horse.
When the victory cheer went up this officer found himself still mounted, with his horse pressed broadside against Cleburne's log parapet in a tangled group of infantrymen.
A horse needed twenty pounds of food a day but the infantryman got along with two pounds.
He slapped the reins on the back of the powerful gray horse and held on as the sulky's wheels hit a pothole and came out with a jolt and went on.
a carriage raising up the choking June dust, and beyond, in a meadow, a local militia company drilling with muskets, Kentuck' rifles, every kind of horse pistol, old sword, or cutlass.
At the recent horse show convention in New York it was stated that this Intermediate Judging Class is meeting with great success and will be a great help to future judges in the horse world.
It fell, February 6, 1827, carrying with it a horse and wagon, two men and four oxen.
It all has something to do with General Burnside and his horse ''.
Anatomically, the horse lung appears to be remarkably like that of man, insofar as this can be ascertained from comparison of our findings in the horse with those of others ( Birnbaum, '54 ) in the human being.
It is known that Morse did associate with a group of itinerant horse traders who made their headquarters at Westport, a town not far from Fall River.
`` A gift horse to be viewed with suspicion ''.
He dropped his earlier and delightful hamming, which is about the only way to handle the old war horse called `` Charley's Aunt '', and let himself go with as appealing an `` Amy '' as anybody could ask.
The reader meets a few old friends like Blimp and the TUC horse, and becomes better acquainted with new members of the cast of characters like the bomb itself, and civilization in her classic robe watching the nuclear arms race, her hair standing straight out.
I'm with the Bar-H, pushing a horse called Sparky.
Thus we have the story of his riding across a stick ( horse made of stick ) with his children and upon being discovered by a friend desiring that he not mention till he himself were the father of children ; and because of the affection of his son Archidamus ' for Cleonymus, he saved Sphodrias, Cleonymus ' father, from execution for his incursion into the Piraeus, and dishonorable retreat, in 378 BC.
During the exercise of his duties he enhanced his reputation for humility by refusing to ride a horsein accord with the dictates of the Dominican order — instead walking back and forth across his huge diocese.
These operations are compounding ( or the addition of one idea onto another, such as a horn on a horse to create a unicorn ); transposing ( or the substitution of one part of a thing with the part from another, such as with the body of a man upon a horse to make a centaur ); augmenting ( as with the case of a giant, whose size has been augmented ); and diminishing ( as with Lilliputians, whose size has been diminished ).

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