It is situated atop a cliff composed of the Demopolis Chalk Formation, known locally as White Bluff, on the east bank of the Tombigbee River.

In 1863, the Union and Confederate armies battled at Chalk Bluff on Four Mile Hill.

The Civil War Battle of Chalk Bluff was fought on Crowley's Ridge on May 1 – 2, 1863.

In May of that year the army's 2nd Division under William Vandever fought the battle of Chalk Bluff against a Confederate raid under John S. Marmaduke.

* Battle of Chalk Bluff ( Herron ) only Vandever's 2nd Division was involved

The Battle of Chalk Bluff was a land battle of the American Civil War that took place in Clay County, Arkansas, and Dunklin County, Missouri, on May 1 and May 2, 1863.

Union forces under Vandever had pursued Marmaduke through Missouri to Chalk Bluff, Arkansas, where Marmaduke planned to cross the St. Francis River, whose steep chalky white clay banks made fording the river difficult for cavalry.

While, in some respects, Marmaduke tactically won the Battle of Chalk Bluff, the Union forces claimed a strategic victory since he had abandoned his spring offensive.

The battle is commemorated today in the small Chalk Bluff Battlefield Park, which preserves a portion of the field.

The towns of Chalk Bluff, Four Mile and Gravel Hill are no longer extant.

* Chalk Bluff Battlefield, Blog Post

* Wright, V. C., & Laud Payne, " The Battle of Chalk Bluff ..." Piggott, Arkansas: 1953.

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On March 24, 1863, Union Col. John McNiel reported that " From 400 to 700 of Jeffers and Clarks men are scattered along from Chalk Bluff to Scatterville and Gainesville.

The Hare Creek Trail is shorter due to damage related to the Chalk Fire.

The Chalk outcrops across large parts of southern and eastern England and forms a significant number of the major physiographical features.

In parts of the Thames Basin and eastern East Anglia the Chalk is concealed by later deposits, as is the case too within the Hampshire Basin.

After that she studied drama at the Rose Bruford School before joining the Royal Shakespeare Company playing parts such as Maria in Twelfth Night and Gruscha in The Caucasian Chalk Circle at the Aldwych Theatre in the early 1960s.

* Chalk climbing: cliffs of chalk may ( with difficulty ) be climbed using some of the same techniques as ice climbing.

Soon psychedelic rock clubs like the UFO Club in Tottenham Court Road, Middle Earth Club in Covent Garden, The Roundhouse in Chalk Farm, the Country Club ( Swiss Cottage ) and the Art Lab ( also in Covent Garden ) were drawing capacity audiences with psychedelic rock and ground-breaking liquid light shows.

The installation at Chalk River, Ontario included an early PDP-4 with a display system and a new PDP-5 as interface to the research reactor instrumentation and control.

The first monument consisted of a circular bank and ditch enclosure made of Late Cretaceous ( Santonian Age ) Seaford Chalk, ( 7 and 8 ), measuring about in diameter, with a large entrance to the north east and a smaller one to the south ( 14 ).

Howe acting as point man, moved the nuclear group from Montreal to Chalk River, Ontario in 1944, with the establishment of Chalk River Nuclear Laboratories and the residential town of Deep River, Ontario.

While air force jets provided suppressive fire on the mountain top with individual gun runs since Mako 30 was less than north of the peak and Chalk 1 with its downed MH-47 was less than 100 m south of the peak.

Hyder directed the Chalk 2 leader to continue mission up the mountain and moved, alone, to link up with Mako 30 in order to assist that team's movement away from the peak thereby creating a better situation for air assets to support by fire.

Chalk has greater resistance to weathering and slumping than the clays with which it is usually associated, thus forming tall steep cliffs where chalk ridges meet the sea.

Chalk is composed mostly of calcium carbonate with minor amounts of silt and clay.

* Chalk is a source of quicklime by thermal decomposition, or slaked lime following quenching with water.

Similarly, the micro-porous ( Upper Cretaceous ) Chalk of south east England, although having a reasonably high porosity, has a low grain-to-grain permeability, with much of its good water-yielding characteristics being due to micro-fracturing and fissuring.

The Canadian-British cartoon Simon in the Land of Chalk Drawings appeared in the 1970s, featuring a child with magic chalk who could create all sorts of short-lived creations in short adventures ( the original version featured a British narrator, but Keeshan's voice was dubbed onto the cartoons for their US airing ).

In May 2009, Dick Mills reunited with former BBC Radiophonic Workshop composers Roger Limb, Paddy Kingsland and Peter Howell with archivist Mark Ayres for a live concert at The Roundhouse, Chalk Farm, London, performing as " The Radiophonic Workshop ".

Serious building began in the 1845 with a scheme sponsored by Henry Tufnell and designed by John Shaw Jr, who had laid out the Eton Estate in Chalk Farm.

This event is still celebrated each year on April 1 and the night before ( known as Chalk Night ( kalknacht ) when the city is defaced with chalk-and now also white paint ).

Early life in Chalk Creek was difficult, and during winters the settlers dealt with a constant scarcity of food.

Following Hayley's rise to fame in Pollyanna ( 1960 ) and the 1961 family comedy The Parent Trap, John and Hayley again starred together, in the 1965 teen sailing adventure The Truth About Spring, the 1964 drama The Chalk Garden ( with Deborah Kerr in the lead role ), and the 1966 comedy-drama The Family Way, in which John plays an insecure, overbearing father and Hayley plays his son's newlywed wife.

* The Chalk Garden ( 1964 )-( with daughter Hayley Mills )

The Upper Chalk is a soft pure-white limestone with abundant flints.

In November, she began recording her seventh studio album, White Chalk, with Flood, John Parish, and Eric Drew Feldman in a studio in West London.

Following the release of White Chalk, Harvey reunited with Parish to record A Woman a Man Walked By, released in March 2009.

" Chalk hills, stretching fifty miles from the Thames to Dunstable Downs, have beautiful blue flowers and butterflies, with glorious beech trees.