With the hope of capturing Caesarea Mazaca, the capital of Cappadocia, he placed himself at the head of the Turkish cavalry, crossed the Euphrates and entered and invaded the city.

Before he crossed the Euphrates, Saladin besieged Aleppo for three days, signaling that the truce was over.

He immediately gathered his army and crossed the Euphrates.

It would have been had he not also sought military glory and crossed the Euphrates in an attempt to conquer Parthia.

Necho soon captured Kadesh on the Orontes and moved forward, joining forces with Ashur-uballit and together they crossed the Euphrates and laid siege to Harran.

Under the rule of Thutmose III, Egyptian troops crossed the Euphrates and entered the core lands of Mitanni.

The Egyptian army crossed the Euphrates at Carchemish and reached a town called Iryn ( maybe present day Erin, 20 km northwest of Aleppo.

In a second campaign, the Hittites again crossed the Euphrates and subdued Halab, Mukish, Niya, Arahati, Apina, and Qatna, as well as some cities whose names have not been preserved.

According to Hittite sources, Piyashshili and Shattiwaza crossed the Euphrates at Carchemish, then marched against Irridu in Hurrian territory.

While Adad-nirari I conquered the Mitanni heartland between the Balikh and the Khabur from the Hittites, he does not seem to have crossed the Euphrates, and Carchemish remained part of the Hittite kingdom.

In 282, Roman Emperor Carus crossed the Euphrates along with his troops and invaded Mesopotamia wreaking havoc.

Galerius crossed the Euphrates into Syria to join his father-in-law Diocletian at Antioch.

The Parthian army crossed the Euphrates and Labienus was able to entice Mark Antony's Roman garrisons around Syria to rally to his cause.

In April 531, a Persian force under Azarethes, numbering about 15, 000 cavalry, with an additional group of 5, 000 Lakhmid Arabs, crossed the frontier at Circesium on the Euphrates and marched north.

Alexander crossed both the Euphrates and the Tigris rivers without any opposition.

On the Eastern frontier things went better, even if with alternate success: in 949 the Byzantines conquered Germanicea, repeatedly defeated the enemy armies and in 952 crossed the upper Euphrates.

The Egyptians and Assyrians together crossed the Euphrates and laid siege to Harran, which they failed to re-take.

In 63 AD, with a strong army, he crossed the Euphrates, but Tiridates declined to give battle and arranged a peace.

It is more likely that the name refers to the place of his birth, ʿEbrā, where the old road east of Malatya towards Kharput ( modern Elazığ ) and Amida ( Mesopotamia ) ( modern Diyarbakır ) crossed the Euphrates.

The other two battalions crossed the Euphrates River and occupied El Qurna.

He crossed both the Tigris and Euphrates without incident, receiving the submission and tribute of several cities along the way, including Aleppo.

Although it has not been found in modern times, he apparently set up a stele when he crossed the Euphrates River.

(, ) Necho then joined forces with the Assyrian Ashur-uballit II and together they crossed the Euphrates and lay siege to Harran.

In a second campaign, the Hittites again crossed the Euphrates and subdued Halab, Mukish, Niya, Arahati, Apina, and Qatna as well as some cities whose names have not been preserved.

Intending to take the strategic town of Vesontio, he concentrated his forces on the Rhine near Lake Constance, and when the Suebi arrived, he crossed.

The shortest ( and possibly oldest ) road avoids alpine areas and led from the Baltic coastline ( nowadays Estonia ), passed the Moravian Gate, followed the river Morava, crossed the Danube near Carnuntum in the Noricum Province, headed southwest past Poetovio, Celeia, Emona, Nauportus, and reached Aquileia at the Adriatic coast.

We learn in the former poem that his father came from Cyme in Aeolis ( on the coast of Asia Minor, a little south of the island Lesbos ), and crossed the sea to settle at a hamlet, near Thespiae in Boeotia, named Ascra, " a cursed place, cruel in winter, hard in summer, never pleasant " ( Works, l. 640 ).

On June 28, 1846, Berreyesa's father, José de los Reyes Berreyesa, an elderly man, crossed the San Francisco Bay and landed near the area known as San Quentin with two cousins, twin sons of Francisco de Haro, who were 19 years old, to visit his own sons in jail.

It crossed the Great Basin, the Utah-Nevada Desert, and the Sierra Nevada near Lake Tahoe before arriving in Sacramento.

* Battle of Mediolanum: A Germanic confederation, the Alamanni ( 300, 000 warriors ), who crossed the Alps are defeated by Roman legions under Gallienus near Mediolanum ( modern Milan ).

Facing annihilation, this last intact French army crossed the border and was disarmed and imprisoned by the neutral Swiss near Pontarlier ( 1 February ).

8. 4 ) how Alans ( whom he calls a " Scythian " tribe ) living near the Sea of Azov, crossed the Iron Gates for plunder and defeated the armies of Pacorus, king of Media, and Tiridates, King of Armenia, two brothers of Vologeses I ( for whom the above-mentioned inscription was made ):

In biblical history, the Jordan appears as the scene of several miracles, the first taking place when the Jordan, near Jericho, was crossed by the Israelites under Joshua ().

After crossing Mount Oread at Lawrence, the trail crosses the Kansas River by ferry or boats near Topeka, and crossed the Wakarusa and Vermillion River rivers by ferries.

Two of these fords were near Fort Hall, where travelers on the Oregon Trail North Side Alternate ( established about 1852 ) and Goodale's Cutoff ( established 1862 ) crossed the Snake to travel on the north side.

On May 4, 1864, the Army of the Potomac crossed the Rapidan River at three separate points and converged on the Wilderness Tavern, near edge of the Wilderness of Spotsylvania, an area of more than of Spotsylvania County and Orange County in central Virginia.

A heavily used trace crossed the Ohio River at the Falls of the Ohio and ran west, crossing the Wabash River near Vincennes, Indiana.

Wallenda crossed near the brink of the Horseshoe Falls, unlike previous walkers who had crossed farther downstream.

To that end, in the first week of September 1944, Eisenhower authorised ( U. S ) First Army to cross the Rhine near Cologne, Bonn and Koblenz while ( U. S .) Third Army crossed near Mannheim, Mainz and Karlsruhe.

On 1 December, Heraclius crossed the Great Zab River and camped near Nineveh.

They crossed the Murray River ( which they named the Hume River ) near the site of Albury and continued south.

A few weeks later, Red gets a blank postcard from a small Texas town near the Mexican border, and surmises that Andy crossed the border there.

Zaretan ( also known as Zarethan or Zeredathah ) is a city mentioned in the Bible, as near the location where the Hebrews crossed the Jordan.

The Fenians under O ' Neill's command crossed the Canadian frontier near Franklin, Vermont, but were dispersed by a single volley from Canadian volunteers.

Once over 500 m long, the Roman Kemer Bridge crossed the upper reaches of the river near the present-day village of Kemer.

Numbering about 500 warriors and 600 non-combatants, they crossed near the mouth of the Iowa River over to Yellow Banks ( present-day Oquawka, Illinois ), and then headed north.