The U. S. Army's last horse cavalry actions were fought during World War II: a ) by the 26th Cavalry Regiment ( PS ) in World War II — a small mounted regiment of Philippine Scouts which fought the Japanese during the retreat down the Bataan peninsula, until it was effectively destroyed by January 1942 ; and b ) on captured German horses by the mounted reconnaissance section of the U. S. 10th Mountain Division in a spearhead pursuit of the German Army across the Po Valley in Italy in April 1945.

Europe is now generally defined by geographers as the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, with its boundaries marked by large bodies of water to the north, west and south ; Europe's limits to the far east are usually taken to be the Urals, the Ural River, and the Caspian Sea ; to the south-east, including the Caucasus Mountains, the Black Sea and the waterways connecting the Black Sea to the Mediterranean Sea.

The Gallipoli peninsula (; ; ) is located in Turkish Thrace ( or East Thrace ), the European part of Turkey, with the Aegean Sea to the west and the Dardanelles straits to the east.

There is still a large military presence on the peninsula ; the home base of Russia's Pacific submarine fleet is across Avacha Bay from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky at the Rybachy base.

Even though Byzantine emperors maintained a claim over the territory, and no barbarian king in the west dared to elevate himself to the position of Emperor of the West, Byzantine control of most of the West could not be sustained ; the reconquest of the Italian peninsula and Mediterranean periphery by Justinian was the sole, and temporary, exception.

A peninsula (, " paene -": almost + " īnsula ": island ; also called a byland or biland ) is a piece of land that is bordered by water on three sides but connected to mainland.

But Honorius III really had too large a task ; besides the liberation of the Holy Land, he felt bound to forward the repression of Cathar heresy in the south of France, the war for the faith in the Spanish peninsula, the planting of Christianity in the lands along the Baltic Sea, and the maintenance of the impossible Latin empire in Constantinople.

The Athenian Empire, although based in the peninsula of Attica, spread out across the islands of the Aegean Sea ; Athens drew its immense wealth from tribute paid from these islands.

Possibly smallpox brought to the Italian peninsula by soldiers returning from the Near East ; it killed a quarter of those infected, and up to five million in all.

In Australia sprigs of rosemary are worn on ANZAC Day and sometimes Remembrance Day to signify remembrance ; the herb grows wild on the Gallipoli peninsula.

The west coast of the peninsula is bordered by the Korea Bay to the north and the Yellow Sea and Korea Strait to the south ; the east coast is bordered by the Sea of Japan.

In the extreme south of Spain lie the Straits of Gibraltar, which separate iberian peninsula and the rest of Europe from Ceuta and Morocco in north Africa ; at its narrowest extent, Spain and Morocco are separated by only.

By the Middle Ages the shepherd's sling was largely militarily extinct outside the Iberian peninsula, where the Spanish and Portuguese infantry favoured it against light and agile Moorish troops ; a sling projectile, while dangerous even against an armoured opponent, would be lethal against a light and unarmoured foe.

Three gulfs separate these peninsulas: Gulf of Tomini between northern Minahassa peninsula and East Peninsula ; Tolo Gulf between East and Southeast Peninsula ; and Bone Gulf between while South and Southeast Peninsula.

One of the few reasonably consistent pieces of information is that exploration voyages from the main base sailed down both the east and west coasts of the land ; this was one of the factors which helped archaeologists locate the site at L ' Anse Aux Meadows, at the tip of Newfoundland's long northern peninsula.

Until the early 20th century, Greeks were uniformly distributed between the Greek peninsula, the western coast of Asia Minor, Pontus, Egypt, Cyprus and Constantinople ; many of these regions coincided to a large extent with the borders of the Byzantine Empire of the late 11th century and the Eastern Mediterranean areas of the ancient Greek colonization.

In ancient times only the northern part of the region was called Apulia ; the southern peninsula was known as Calabria, a name now used to designate the southwestern tip of the Italian peninsula ( the " toe " of the Italian " boot ").

The first official document that mentions the city dates to November 925 ; it documents a civitas denominated Melfi, situated on a peninsula named Sant ' Andrea.

Of these the most lofty and striking were Mimas and Corycus, in the peninsula which stands out to the west, facing the island of Chios ; Sipylus, to the north of Smyrna, Corax, extending to the south-west from the Gulf of Smyrna, and descending to the sea between Lebedus and Teos ; and the strongly marked range of Mycale, a continuation of Messogisin the interior, which forms the bold headland of Trogilium or Mycale, opposite Samos.

The peninsula of Saint-Tropez is part of the Massif des Maures, along with the peninsula of Giens and the islands offshore of Hyères ; Porquerolles, Port-Cros, and île du Levant.

Some have understood Ammianus's testimony as a claim that at the time of Atlantis's actual sinking into the sea, its inhabitants fled to western Europe ; but Ammianus in fact says that “ the Drasidae ( Druids ) recall that a part of the population is indigenous but others also migrated in from islands and lands beyond the Rhine " ( Res Gestae 15. 9 ), an indication that the immigrants came to Gaul from the north ( Britain, the Netherlands or Germany ), not from a theorized location in the Atlantic Ocean to the south-west.

In 1768, he settled in Edinburgh ; he lived from 1771 until his death in 1776 at the south-west corner of St. Andrew's Square, in Edinburgh's New Town, at what is now 21 Saint David Street.

The Finnish and Estonian languages are both part of the non-Indo-European Uralic languages ; they share a similar grammar as well as several individual words, though sometimes as false friends: e. g. the Finnish word for ' south ', etelä is close to the Estonian word edel, but the latter means south-west.

The rest of Kenilworth Castle's interior is divided into three areas: the base court, stretching between Mortimer's Tower and Leicester's gatehouse ; the left-hand court, stretching south-west around the outside of the inner court ; and the right-hand court, to the north-west of the inner court.

To the east, the region touches upon the Silesian Upland ( Silesian Uplands, Wyżyna Śląska ) with the famous Saint Anne Mountain ; the Sudetes range, the Opawskie Mountains, lies to the south-west.

The main railway station is Poznań Central Station to the south-west of the city centre ; there is also the smaller Poznań Wschód and Poznań Garbary station north-east of the centre, and a number of other stations on the outskirts of the city.

Meanwhile, Stephen had put down two revolts in the south-west led by Baldwin de Redvers and Robert of Bampton ; Baldwin was released after his capture and travelled to Normandy, where he became an increasingly vocal critic of the king.

Stephen then agreed to a truce proposed by his brother, Henry of Blois ; the full details of the truce are not known, but the results were that Stephen first released Matilda from the siege and then allowed her and her household of knights to be escorted to the south-west, where they were reunited with Robert of Gloucester.

The Saxon street plan laid out by Alfred the Great is still evident today: a cross shaped street system which conformed to the standard town planning system of the day – overlaying the pre-existing Roman street plan ( incorporating the ecclesiastical quarter in the south-east ; the judicial quarter in the south-west ; the tradesmen in the north-east ).

The Giudicato of Cagliari was divided into three parts: the northwest third, went to Gallura ; the centre was incorporated into Arborea ; the region of Sulcis and Iglesiente, on the south-west, were given to the Pisan della Gherardesca family, while the Republic of Pisa maintained the control over his colony of Castel di Castro.

: For the Baghdad dynasty, see Abbasid Caliphate ; for the south-west Arabia Muslim sect, see Abādites.

Several secondary plateaus of lower altitude are also distinguished by geographers, The Katun valley begins as a wild gorge on the south-west slope of Belukha ; then, after a big bend, the river ( 600 km long ) pierces the Katun Alps, and enters a wider valley, lying at an altitude of from 600 to 1, 100 m, which it follows until it emerges from the Altai highlands to join the Biya in a most picturesque region.

The climate of Backergunje is one of the healthiest in Eastern Bengal, owing to the strong south-west monsoon, which comes up directly from the Bay of Bengal, and keeps the atmosphere cool ; but the heavy rainfall and consequent humidity of the atmosphere, combined with the use of bad water, are fruitful sources of disease.

Situated at the southern tip of the south-west arm of Lake Como, is located north of Milan ; the city proper borders Switzerland and the comunes of Blevio, Brunate, Capiago Intimiano, Casnate con Bernate, Cavallasca, Cernobbio, Grandate, Lipomo, Maslianico, Montano Lucino, San Fermo della Battaglia, Senna Comasco, Tavernerio, Torno and the Swiss towns of Chiasso and Vacallo.

The epicentre was located west of Christchurch ; south-east of Darfield ; south-southeast of Westport ; south-west of Wellington ; and north-northeast of Dunedin.

His presence was resented by Denethor, the Steward of Gondor ; but after Denethor's son Faramir was gravely wounded in battle, Denethor sank into despair and madness.

Later, the Haradrim defeated Gondor on land and besieged Umbar ; but King Hyarmendacil I strengthened his army and navy, and forced the kings of Harad to submit after a great victory in T. A.

His son Valacar was sent to their lands as an ambassador ; while there, he married the daughter of one of their lords and returned to Gondor only after some years.

The oaths between Gondor and Rohan were renewed, and several joint campaigns were fought in the east and south ; all former territories of the South-kingdom were won back during the following centuries, and its power and wealth were restored.

The author imagined that because of the " quick satiety with good " of Men, " the people of Gondor in times of peace, justice and prosperity, would become discontented and restless ... even so early there was an outcrop of revolutionary plots, about a centre of secret Satanistic religion ; while Gondorian boys were playing at being Orcs and going round doing damage ".

To the north-west of the kingdom originally lay the realm of Arnor ; to the north, Gondor was neighboured by the Wilderland and, after its settlement, by Rohan ; to the north-east, by the land of Rhûn ; to the east, by Sauron's realm of Mordor ; to the south, by the deserts of Harad.

The original borders of Gondor were: rivers Gwathló and Glanduin up to the Misty Mountains ; eaves of the Fangorn forest and river Entwash ; marshes of Nindalf and the Mountains of Shadow ; and river Poros.

By the beginning of the War of the Ring, the confines of land fully controlled by Gondor had retreated to the line of the White Mountains and the Mering Stream in the west ; and the line of the river Anduin in the east.

; Ithilien: The easternmost province of Gondor, lying between the river Anduin and the Mountains of Shadow, subdivided by the stream of Morgulduin into North and South Ithilien.

; Enedhwaith: The wide land between rivers Isen and Greyflood, stated in different Tolkien's writings either to have been held by Gondor and Arnor jointly, to have been a part of the South-kingdom, or to have belonged to neither of them.

; Anfalas: The shoreline of Gondor between the rivers Lefnui and Morthond, south of the hills of Pinnath Gelin.

; Dor-en-Ernil: Literally, the " Land of the Prince ", located in the south of Gondor ; its boundaries are not stated, but Christopher Tolkien assumed that it spanned both sides of the highlands in Belfalas.

; Lebennin: The central and one of the most populated regions of Gondor, bordered by river Anduin in the east and south and by the White Mountains in the north.

; South Gondor: The territory between rivers Harnen and Poros, which belonged to Gondor from the time of King Falastur, but became " a debatable and desert land " by the end of the Third Age.

; Tolfalas: An island in the Great Sea close to the Mouths of Anduin, locked between two capes in Belfalas and South Gondor.

The cave had been excavated by the stream that fed the cascade, which had since been diverted by the men of Gondor to fall from doubled height ; the tunnel had been sealed, except for a concealed entrance along the brink of a deep pool beneath the waterfall .</ div >