The French initially reported just 11 British ships, as Swiftsure and Alexander were still returning from their scouting operations at Alexandria, and so were to the west of the main fleet, out of sight.

While we now see with our own eyes that such operations were a habit which is prevalent among all civilized people of the west "

The Hindu-Arabic numeral system and the rules for the use of its operations, in use throughout the world today, likely evolved over the course of the first millennium AD in India and was transmitted to the west via Islamic mathematics.

Improved road transport links finally ended both the dairy and the rail link in the 1970s ( with dairy processing operations now concentrated in Tangambalanga, about to the west ).

Cyrus the Great, founder of the Achaemenid dynasty, resolved to complete the conquest of Anatolia as a prelude to operations further west, to be carried out by his successors.

A plan was laid for combined operations against the Spanish colonies from east and west.

Strategic bombers have also been used to support major military ground operations, such as the isolation of Normandy through the bombing of transportation hubs throughout northern France in support of the D-Day invasion, or the carpet bombing of the Axis front lines west of Saint-Lô in support of Operation Cobra.

The Orléanais region southwest of Paris was of key importance, not only for controlling the Loire river, but also to smoothly connect the English area of operations in the west and the Burgundian area of operations in the east.

Aerial operations were split into two, east of Cape Tenez in Algeria, with British aircraft under Air Marshal Sir William Welsh and west of Cape Tenez, all American aircraft under Major General Jimmy Doolittle, under the direct command of Major General Patton.

The ATV operations moved to Elstree and Borehamwood ( now BBC studios ) and the BBC News department, which was the only unit remaining at " Ally Pally " after BBC Television Centre was opened in the 1950s, moved to White City, west London in September 1969.

* 1973: Third extension of Gatwick's runway to to allow non-stop narrowbody operations to the US west coast with a full payload and commercially viable, long-range widebody operations.

The council moved its summer camp operations to Camp Semialachee, located on the west side of Moore Lake south of SR 20 on the Silver Lake Road west of Tallahassee.

A more modern highway ( US 29 ) was constructed and moved many of the commercial operations west of the small original core of the community ( now mostly located within the Alger-Sullivan Lumber Company Residential Historic District ).

The name Port Sulphur derives from the Freeport Sulphur Company in the early 1930s, when it set up logistics, refining, storage and shipping operations to support its Frasch Process sulphur mine at Lake Grande Ecaille, located 10 miles west of the town in the nearby marsh.

Severe washouts west of Bridge Street prevent westward operations.

Two other Texas Air Corporation affiliates joined Eastern during the 1980s: Concourse D was also used by Braniff International Airways for Latin American operations up until their shutdown in 1982, and Continental Airlines used gates on the west side of the concourse during the 1980s.

The Dodson's coal lands ran from Center Avenue on the west to Pierce Street on the east, and thus the Dodson's mining operations took place beneath the central business district of the Borough.

His holdings are said to have extended as far west as Pine Creek from his base of operations in Muncy Township.

" Although the company president said he would quickly rebuild and reopen the plant, its retail store was moved to Route 208 west of town, adjacent to Slavic Folk Crafts, and manufacturing operations are conducted at other locations.

The Williams Valley Railroad began operations in 1892, which extended further from the Brookside branch into the Williams Valley west of Tower City.

The east and west bank of the river were the location of logging operations since the late 1840s, and the dam was constructed in 1859 by Daniel F. Smith.

The guerrillas were swarming from their bivouac at the west end of the enclosure.

To the west, the dark green hills of Leyte were lost in the clouds about halfway up their slopes.

They were west of the Sabine, but only God knew where.

As best as I could determine, we were some 700 miles west of New Guinea, in the Bismark Archipelago.

In fact, all persons were permitted to cross the Rhine into Kehl, there being no sentry posted on the west side of the river.

Morgan and his corps were placed on the west side of the Schuylkill River, with instructions to intercept all supplies found going to the city and to keep a close eye on the movements of the enemy.

From the east to the west coast of the Korean peninsula was a strip of land in which fear-filled men were at that same moment furtively crawling through the night, sitting in sweaty anticipation of any movement or sound, or shouting amidst confused rifle flashes and muzzle blasts.

And now the redcoats were coming, and the gunfire was a part of the dust cloud on the road to the west of us.

and about a mile to the west a cluster of at least fifty Militia were making their way in our direction.

A lot of religious elements including the were transmitted from the Hittites to the Greeks and then to the west.

* Aran Islands: These islands off the west coast of Ireland, ( not to be confused with the Isle of Arran in Scotland's Firth of Clyde ), were unsuitable for arable farming because they were too rocky.

The Indian numerals were adopted by the Persian and Arabic mathematicians in India, and passed on to the Arabs further west.

Two locations on the Moon were given primary consideration for exploration by the Apollo 16 expedition, the Descartes Highlands region west of Mare Nectaris and the crater Alphonsus.

He also provided a gift of a bag containing all winds but the west, which Odysseus's crew members unwittingly opened just before they were to reach Ithaca.

Another was unveiled at St Mildred's Church, Bread St, London, in 1932 ; that church was destroyed in the London Blitz in 1940, but the principal elements of the monument were re-erected in St Mary-le-Bow at the west end of Watling Street, near Saint Paul's Cathedral, in 1968.

In that year tholos-tombs, most already pillaged but retaining some of their furniture, were excavated at Arkina and Eleusis in Attica, at Dimini near Volos in Thessaly, at Kampos on the west of Mount Taygetus, and at Maskarata in Cephalonia.

Remains of the walls of this fort were discovered west of the castle when excavating the foundations for a new post office and telephone exchange building in the late 1960s.

The dangers to Vienna were considerable: the Elector of Bavaria and Marshal Marsin's forces in Bavaria threatened from the west, and Marshal Vendôme's large army in northern Italy posed a serious danger with a potential offensive through the Brenner Pass.

The roads leading north and west were choked with fugitives.

While only one net lane in each direction was added to the north – south I-93, several new east – west lanes were added to untangle the traffic.

In the 19th century, coastal areas ruled by the Sultanate in the west of the island were gradually taken by the dynasty of James Brooke.

The remainder of the squadron was scattered ; the ships of the line sheltered at San Pietro Island off Sardinia, while the frigates were blown to the west and failed to return.

Brueys had augmented the fort with his bomb vessels and gunboats, which were anchored among the rocks to the west of the island in a position to give support to the head of the French line.