At its height, the city was a major center of trade, and consisted of three parts separated by the Volga.

At its easternmost point, the Don comes near the Volga, and the Volga-Don Canal ( length ca.

At their greatest reported extent, around 100 BC, these tribes ranged from the Vistula River to the mouth of the Danube and eastward to the Volga, bordering the shores of the Black and Caspian seas as well as the Caucasus to the south.

At launch, Volga fitted over Voskhod 2 ’ s hatch, extending beyond the spacecraft's hull.

At the same time, Malenkov followed Stalin's orders of building several space centers, such as Kapustin Yar near the Volga river and Khrunichev missile center in Moscow.

At the end of the 17th century, Cheboksary was regarded as a major commercial city of the Volga region, and in 1781 it received the status of a city of the Kazan province.

At the confluence with the Volga there is a settlement of Vasilsursk.

At its peak, the Legion took over a considerable area around the railway from just east of the Volga River all the way to Vladivostok.

At the same time the lands to the east of the Volga River ( Taw yağı ) were ceded to Russia.

At first the Muslim Bashkirs declined to participate, but later in 1917 they and the Volga Germans joined the League of Idel-Ural.

At 19: 00 the 22nds divisional artillery began shelling the fort and its smaller supporting fortress, Volga, located to Stalin ’ s rear, with 210, 280 and 305 mm weapons.

At the start of 1942, the weakened Axis armies abandoned their march on Moscow and advanced south towards the Caucasus and Volga river.

At the same time the announcement was made, GAZ also introduced the Volga 311055, a long wheelbase derivative of the 31105.

At the estuary of the Isère River, the Teutons and the Ambrones met Marius, whose well-defended camp they did not manage to overrun.

At Cairo, the Nile spreads out over what was once a broad estuary, subsequently filled by silt deposits to form what is now a fertile, fan-shaped delta some 250 km wide at its seaward extremity and extending about 160 km from north to south.

At the start of the 21st century, Sydney faces a significant challenge in the cleanup of the Sydney Tar Ponds, a tidal estuary contaminated with a variety of coal-based wastes from coke ovens that supplied the steel industry.

At its mouth is a large estuary on which the port city of Lisbon is situated.

At this time Wisbech was on the estuary of the River Great Ouse, but silting caused the coastline to move north, and the River Nene was diverted to serve the town.

At 13: 10, Beatty turned northwest and ordered all the British ships to withdraw since the tide had now risen sufficiently for larger German ships to pass out through the Jade estuary.

At the Plum Island estuary, Massachusetts ( U. S. A ), stratigraphic cores revealed that during the 18th and 19th century the marsh prograded over subtidal and mudflat environments to increase in area from 6 km < sup > 2 </ sup > to 9 km < sup > 2 </ sup > after European settlers deforested the land uptream and increased the rate of sediment supply.

At Onna ( Nursling ), the Romans erected a bridge ( probably a wooden one as no trace of stone abutments remains ) across the River Test, below which it widens into its estuary, and there are traces of the Roman road from Nursling to Stoney Cross.

At high tide, the estuary forms a large body of water that is heavily used for water sports especially sailing, windsurfing and water skiing.

At this time, the Lea was a wide, fast flowing river, and the tidal estuary stretched as far as Hackney Wick .< ref >< cite >' Bethnal Green: Communications ', A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 11: Stepney, Bethnal Green ( 1998 ), pp. 88-90 accessed: 15 November 2006 </ cite ></ ref > Evidence of a late Roman settlement at Old Ford, dating from the 4th and 5th centuries, has been found.

At its estuary the river has formed the wide shallow ria of Poole Harbour.

At the confluence of the Elwy and the Clwyd, the river becomes tidal and enters a narrow estuary with lots of wildlife before meeting the Irish Sea at Rhyl.

At Wimborne Minster it is joined by the River Allen, and at its estuary at Christchurch it is joined by the River Avon before it flows through the harbour into the English Channel.

At the time of European colonialization of the Hudson River estuary in the 17th century, much of the west side Upper New York Bay contained large tidal flats which hosted vast oyster beds, a major source of food for the Lenape people who lived there at the time.

At the time of his arrival the estuary of the Taw and Torridge rivers was wooded, as was a portion of Braunton Burrows.

At Wilmington, it receives the Northeast Cape Fear River and Brunswick River, turns south, widening as an estuary and entering the Atlantic approximately 3 miles ( 5 km ) west of Cape Fear.

At Little Ferry, it is joined by the broad Overpeck Creek, then flows southward, widening in a broad meandering tidal estuary through the Meadowlands, forming extensive side streams and wetlands.

At its highest point it stands at only 352 metres ( 1155 feet ), but offers uninterrupted views of the Cumbrian coast from the Ravenglass estuary in the south to the Solway Firth and across to Scotland in the north.

At the estuary of the river dwelt the Beormas, who unlike the nomadic Sami peoples were sedentary, and their land was rich and populous.

At the mouth of the estuary is the Wightlink car ferry terminal for connections to Portsmouth.

At Ayton the Eye Water swings NNE for the final five km leg to its estuary.

At dusk, bats, owls and otters may be seen, while the mudflats of the estuary are favoured by black-headed gulls, redshanks and oystercatchers.

At its mouth the estuary is 500 metres wide but the 20 metre deep ( chart ) channel is only 50 metres wide.

At this point, recognizing the opportunity, Field-Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery, issued a directive that made the opening of the Scheldt estuary the top priority of 21st Army Group.

At Geneva in 1954, to get the war in Indo-China settled, the British and French gave in to Russian and Communist Chinese demands and agreed to the setting up of a Communist state, North Viet Nam -- which then, predictably, became a base for Communist operations against neighboring South Viet Nam and Laos.

Poirot also bears a striking resemblance to A. E. W. Mason's fictional detective — Inspector Hanaud of the French Sûreté — who, first appearing in the 1910 novel At the Villa Rose, predates the writing of the first Poirot novel by six years.

* 1813 – At the Battle of Grossbeeren, the Prussians under Von Bülow repulse the French army.

At the height of the French Revolution, he was accused by Jean-Paul Marat of selling adulterated tobacco, and of other crimes and was eventually guillotined a year after Marat's death.

At the age of 25, he was elected a member of the French Academy of Sciences, France's most elite scientific society, for an essay on street lighting and in recognition of his earlier research.

At the start of World War I, thousands of the French Cuirassiers rode out to engage the German Cavalry who likewise used helmets and armour.

* 1969 – Vietnam War: At the apartment of French intermediary Jean Sainteny in Paris, American representative Henry Kissinger and North Vietnamese representative Xuan Thuy begin secret peace negotiations.

At the age of 15, Braille developed his code for the French alphabet in 1824 as an improvement on night writing.

At about 08: 00 the French artillery on their right wing opened fire, answered by Colonel Blood's batteries.

At about 08: 00, after Cadogan had just passed Merdorp, his force made brief contact with a party of French hussars gathering forage on the edge of the plateau of Jandrenouille.

At the beginning of the battle, the English simulated flight on their left wing that provoked a hasty charge by the French knights against the archers.

At 14: 00 on 1 August, lookouts on HMS Zealous reported the French anchored in Aboukir Bay, its signal lieutenant just beating the lieutenant on HMS Goliath with the signal, but inaccurately describing 16 French ships of the line instead of 13.

At the same time, French lookouts on Heureux, the ninth ship in the French line, sighted the British fleet approximately off the mouth of Aboukir Bay.

At the sight of the French, Troubridge abandoned the vessel and made strenuous efforts to rejoin Nelson.

At 17: 30, Nelson hailed one of his two leading ships, HMS Zealous under Captain Samuel Hood, which had been racing Goliath to be the first to fire on the French.

At 18: 20, as Goliath and Zealous rapidly bore down on them, the leading French ships Guerrier and Conquérant opened fire.

At the French Grand Prix at Reims-Gueux, Jack Brabham became the first man to win a Formula One world championship race in a car bearing his own name.

At the end of the 17th century, English country dances were taken up by French dancers ; hybrid choreographies exist from this period using the steps from French court dance in English dances.

At that time the French congregation of the order was composed of twenty-one monasteries, the head of which was that of Paris, and was governed by a Provincial with the authority of General.

At the Battle of Waterloo — Napoleon's final battle — the French army had many more artillery pieces than either the British or Prussians.

At that time the French and Chinese reconvened Geneva peace talks ; Eisenhower agreed the U. S. would participate only as an observer.

* 1804 – At Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself Emperor of the French, the first French Emperor in a thousand years.