On April 8, he set out from Jefferson Barracks in Missouri, moving up the Mississippi River by steamboat with about 220 soldiers.

On the second Saturday of each May since 1964, the " Sailing Masters of 1812 " of Essex commemorate the " Burning of the Ships " with an ancient fife and drum corps parade down Main Street and ceremony at the steamboat dock, wearing the United States naval uniform of that period ; by tradition, this event is unpublicized.

On May 24, 1824, a group of Harmonists boarded a steamboat and departed Indiana, bound for Pennsylvania, where they founded the community of Economy, now called Ambridge.

On December 3, 1787, James Rumsey conducted a successful trial of his new invention, the steamboat, in the Potomac at the north end of Princess Street.

On a stern wheel steamboat, the fantail supports the large paddle wheel and is typically angled upwards so the shaft of the paddle wheel can sit higher than the main deck.

On December 4, 1838, at 2 am, the Patriots crossed the Detroit River into Canada on a captured steamboat, the Champlain, and engaged in an unsuccessful battle at Windsor where the Patriots set the British barracks on fire, burned the steamer Thames and several houses, and killed four militiamen before taking positions at the Baby farm, which contained a large orchard.

) On the steamboat ride from New Orleans to Cincinnati, Junius became ill, presumably from drinking impure river water.

On this occasion, the steamboat towed two loaded vessels through the canal, covering 18½ miles in 9½ hours.

On March 11, 1819, after a treacherous journey up the Mississippi, Ohio and Cumberland rivers, the General Jackson became the first steamboat to reach Nashville.

On the night of April 25, in anticipation of the attack, General McNeil ordered the evacuation of women and children via steamboat to a safe location upriver.

On June 5, 1833, the men were sent west by steamboat on a circuitous route that took them through many large cities.

On February 29 in Pittsburg they boarded the steamboat Arabian for Cincinnati, arriving four days later, where they waited for the Whitmans.

On March 22 they all boarded the steamboat Junius to St. Louis.

Behind the fountain is a stone monument, erected by the city of Palma, Mallorca to thank and honour the local fishermen who, On the 17th January 1913, rescued victims of the shipwrecked steamboat ‘ Mallorca ’ which had run aground on a reef near the rocky inlet of Redona at Punta Arabí.

) On the shield of the seal are a steamboat, a plow, a beehive and a sheaf of wheat, symbols of Arkansas's industrial and agricultural wealth.

On one occasion, Outerbridge was serving aboard the steamboat Robert E. Lee.

On July 1, 1850, Green piloted a steamboat up the Sacramento River, taking his uncle and cousin to their land, where they founded the town of Colusa.

On the way back to Valparaiso, the Spanish squadron captured the Chilean steamboat Paquete del Maule that was transporting part of the crew for the new Peruvian ironclads Huáscar and Independencia.

On this trip to the South he wants, above all else, to sniff the effluvium of backwoods-and-sand-hill subhumanity and to see at least one barn burn at midnight ''.

On his first trip to the finished structure he boasted that he had built a temple grander than Solomon's in Jerusalem.

On June 24 more than 400 families started the three-month trip across the plains to the Mississippi.

And then I remembered a few years before after their return from a short trip to Rome I had heard her boast, over and over again, `` On the boat people liked me for myself ''.

On a trip to the excavation site at Ur in 1930, she met her future husband, archaeologist Sir Max Mallowan, a distinguished archaeologist, but her fame as an author far surpassed his fame in archaeology.

On the other hand, it is quite possible for this anchor to find such a good hook that, without a trip line from the crown, it is impossible to retrieve.

On a trip to Washington, with a final plea for help in East Tennessee in early 1863, he gave a speech in Indianapolis, saying: " If the institution of slavery denies the government the right of agitation, and seeks to overthrow it, then the government has a clear right to destroy it.

On his return from a business trip to Yemen, he was informed that in his absence Muhammad had openly declared his prophethood.

On his return from a business trip from Yemen, he was informed by friends that in his absence Muhammad had declared himself the Messenger of God, and proclaimed a new religion.

On the return trip to Earth, Mattingly performed a one-hour spacewalk to retrieve several film cassettes from the exterior of the Service Module.

On December 21, 2008, Atlanta beat the Minnesota Vikings 24 – 17 to clinch a wild card spot, earning a trip to the playoffs for the first time since 2004.

On 13 September 81 after barely two years in office, he unexpectedly died of fever during a trip to the Sabine territories.

On the return trip to Spain, the two brethren met with a group of papal legates who were determined to triumph over the Manichean menace.

On 20 February 1919, Habibullah Khan was assassinated on a hunting trip.

On this trip they were honored and feted.

On 4 September, Essendon were assigned with a tough away trip against Adelaide at AAMI Stadium with a depleted squad.

On the return trip down-river Kurtz dies, while uttering " The horror!

On a trip to Florence in June 1910, she conceived the idea of creating a museum-house.

On the 1787 trip to the Isle of Arran he found his first example of Hutton's Unconformity to the north of Newton Point near Lochranza, but the limited view meant that the condition of the underlying strata was not clear enough for him, and he incorrectly thought that the strata were conformable at a depth below the exposed outcrop.

On a prospecting trip downriver with a load of goods, Audubon joined up with Shawnee and Osage hunting parties, learning their methods, drawing specimens by the bonfire, and finally parting " like brethren.

On the fifth field trip, Lönnrot met Arhippa Perttunen who provided a large portion of the verses for The Kalevala.

On the return trip to Earth, the propulsion stage of the Earth Return Vehicle would be used as a counterweight to generate artificial gravity for the trip back.

On his first trip to England in 1931 he traveled on the Rajputana, the same ship that was carrying Mahatma Gandhi, who was sailing to the second Round Table Conference in London.