This could be accomplished without the tremendous expenditures necessitated by the Schuylkill Expressway and without destroying the natural beauty of the East River Drive.

No matter how determined or wealthy boating lovers of the Southwest had been, for example, they could never have created anything approaching the fifty square-mile Lake Texoma, located between Texas and Oklahoma, which resulted when the Corp of Army Engineers dammed the Red River.

Fall River police did go to Westport to see if they could get any information against Morse and possibly find an accomplice whom he might have hired from among these men.

However, even in eastern Saxony, the Ascanians could establish control only in limited areas, mostly near the River Elbe.

The only way a ship could travel out of the Great Lakes system was to travel down the Detroit River.

Agreement could not be reached, however, on sharing the waters of the Helmand River.

Together, Plunkett and Casement presented a plan which involved a German expeditionary force landing on the west coast of Ireland, while a rising in Dublin diverted the British forces so that the Germans, with the help of local Volunteers, could secure the line of the River Shannon.

After Hattusa was made capital, the area encompassed by the bend of the Halys River ( Hittite Marassantiya, ) was considered the core of the Empire, and some Hittite laws make a distinction between " this side of the river " and " that side of the river ", for example, the reward for the capture of an eloped slave after he managed to flee beyond the Halys is higher than that for a slave caught before he could reach the river.

Starting in the spring of 218 BC, he crossed the Pyrenees and, by conciliating the Gaulish chiefs along his passage, reached the River Rhône before the Romans could take any measures to bar his advance.

The location was favorable because there is a short portage of less than 15 km to the Treene River, which flows into the Eider with its North Sea estuary, making it a convenient place where goods and ships could be ported overland for an almost uninterrupted seaway between the Baltic and the North Sea and avoid a dangerous circumnavigation of Jutland.

On July 3, before crossing the Continental Divide, the Corps split into two teams so Lewis could explore the Marias River.

When she could keep him hidden no longer, rather than deliver him to be killed, she set him adrift on the Nile River in a small craft of bulrushes coated in pitch.

Oxfordians say the first of these phrases could refer to one of Edward de Vere's manors, Bilton, near the Forest of Arden, in Rugby, on the River Avon.

Desmond soon hired Brubeck, but cut his pay in half and then replaced him altogether after taking him along to Graeagle at The Feather River Inn for gigs ; this was done so Desmond could gamble in nearby Reno.

Simeon was an entrepreneur in trade on the Columbia River ; in his will he suggested that his wife could " devote some portion of my estate to benevolent objects, or to the cultivation, illustration, or development of the fine arts in the city of Portland, or to some other suitable purpose, which shall be of permanent value and contribute to the beauty of the city and to the intelligence, prosperity, and happiness of the inhabitants ".

South Korean authorities feared that once completed, a sudden release of the dam's waters into the Pukhan River during north-south hostilities could flood Seoul and paralyze the capital region.

Vessels navigating the St. John River can only transit the Reversing Falls gorge at slack tide, thus Indiantown became a location during the 19th and 20th centuries where tugboats and paddle wheelers could dock to wait.

His daughter Margaret ( Meg ) Roper rescued it, possibly by bribery, before it could be thrown in the River Thames.

After 842, when the Vikings set up a permanent base at the mouth of the Loire River, they could strike as far as northern Spain.

Profile of the Pacific Railroad from Council Bluffs / Omaha to San FranciscoThe Union Pacific's of track started at MP 0. 0 in Council Bluffs, Iowa on the eastern side of the Missouri River, the location of its Transfer Depot where up to seven railroads could transfer mail and other goods to Union Pacific trains bound for the west from which they then crossed the river over the Union Pacific Missouri River Bridge ( opened in 1873 ) to Omaha, Nebraska.

Missouri's advantages included that it had the only railroad to actually reach the Missouri River on its western border ( H & SJ ), was more centrally located for lines coming up from Texas and could offer a route servicing Denver, Colorado, the biggest city in the Great American Desert.

The unfinished Danube-Bucharest Canal, which is long and approximately 70 % completed, could link Bucharest to the Danube River and, via the Danube-Black Sea Canal, to the Black Sea.

After the British victories at Hubbardton, Fort Ticonderoga, and Fort Anne, General John Burgoyne proceeded with the Saratoga campaign, with the goal of capturing Albany and gaining control of the Hudson River Valley, where Burgoyne's force could ( as the plan went ) meet the other pincers, dividing the colonies in two.

Baum was originally ordered to proceed to the Connecticut River valley where they believed horses could be procured for the dragoons.

Brasenose beat Jesus to win Oxford University's first Head of the River ; the two clubs claim to be the oldest established boat clubs in the world.

* December 18 – The Bridge on the River Kwai is released in the U. S. It goes on to win the Academy Award for Best Picture.

* August 27 – The University of Oxford win the first international boat race held on the River Thames against Harvard University.

* December 16 – The Boers win a decisive victory over the Zulus in the Battle of Blood River.

* Battle of the Lupia River: Roman forces under Augustus's stepson Nero Claudius Drusus win a victory in Germania.

* First African-American author to win Best Play: Joseph A. Walker for The River Niger in 1974.

The championship was very even and at the end of the tournament three teams were in contention to win: Udinese, Vicenza and Olympia River.

Her 1988 song " Let the River Run " was the first to win a Grammy Award, an Academy Award, and a Golden Globe Award for a song written and performed by a single artist.

In these years, Peñarol failed to win the Uruguayan Championship, losing the final to River Plate FC in 1914, and finishing second to Nacional in 1915, 1916 and 1917, and during this period the most important event was the inauguration of the Las Acacias field, on May 19, 1916.

The highlight of his junior career was a win at Margaret River in 1973.

* July — Harvard – Yale Regatta, a 1: 38 win for Harvard on the Connecticut River in Springfield, Massachusetts.

Early on in the school's history, the athletes were referred to as the " Fighting Teachers ", until the students chose the name " Sycamores ", from the abundance of Sycamore trees in Indiana and especially in the Wabash River Valley ; though it is believed that the students voted on ' Sycamores ' on a lark, never thinking it would win.

From 1996 – 1998 Salas scored 26 goals in 51 games, helping River to win the Torneo de Apertura 1996, the Clausura 1997, the Apertura 1997 and the 1997 Supercopa Sudamericana.

If they make it that far, they win a cruise on the Saint Lawrence River.

The Fall River Rovers were among one the few clubs to win both the National Challenge Cup and the American Cup.

River were able to win the Argentine Primera División in 1955, the title was confirmed when River beat hated local rivals Boca Juniors 2 – 1 at La Bombonera, in Buenos Aires, with just one game remaining.

* Powder River pass, a football play in 1954 giving Arkansas a 6-0 win over Ole Miss.

For the 1978 World Cup hosted in Argentina, River gave 5 players to the national team that would win the championship: Fillol, Luque, Passarella, Ortiz and Alonso.

River would later win its second treble, obtaining the 1996 Apertura and 1997 Clausura and the 1997 Apertura.

At a regatta held on 20 November 1943 the Maadi Camp Rowing Club " Kiwi " oarsmen beat the Cairo River Club by 11 points to six to win the Freyberg Cup, which they then gifted to the competitors.

During this time, he submitted a design for a swing bridge over the Yarra River at Spencer Street, Melbourne, but did not win the competition organised by the Government of Victoria.

For The Bridge on the River Kwai, he had to persuade good friend Alec Guinness to take the lead role, which would ultimately win Guinness an Oscar.

The James River Cup was an annual competition held between the Richmond Kickers and the Virginia Beach Mariners ( formerly Hampton Roads Mariners ) which the team with the most points at the conclusion of all scheduled matches between the two teams would win.