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Allenby's force, now including Indian Army units which replaced a number of British units sent to the Western Front, captured the southern Jordan Valley in 1918 and carried out two major, but unsuccessful attacks to Amman and Es Salt and occupied part of the Jordan Valley, during preparations for his final successful assault in September at the Battle of Megiddo.
After continued difficulties and persecution in Illinois, Young left Nauvoo in 1846 and led his followers, the Mormon pioneers, to the Great Salt Lake Valley.
During a pause in operations necessitated by the Spring Offensive in 1918 on the Western Front joint infantry and mounted infantry attacks towards Amman and Es Salt resulted in retreats back to the Jordan Valley which continued to be occupied by mounted divisions during the summer of 1918.
Meanwhile Chaytor's Force of infantry and mounted infantry in Anzac Mounted Division held the Jordan Valley, covering the right flank to later advance eastwards to capture Es Salt and Amman and half of a third Ottoman army.
Salt was a valuable commodity, and an industry developed near salt springs in the Ohio River Valley, producing salt by evaporating brine from the springs.
* 1847 – After 17 months of travel, Brigham Young leads 148 Mormon pioneers into Salt Lake Valley, resulting in the establishment of Salt Lake City.
Starting from the north and running clockwise, these are: Shore Island, George Island, Rough Rock Island, Flat Rock, The Buoys, Sandy Bay Island, Black Horse Island, White Bird Island, Frightus Island, Jar Rock, Castle Point Rock, Robert Rock, Salt Rock, Speery Island, Flat Rock, The Needle, Lower and Upper Black Rock, Bird Island, Black Rock, Thompson's Valley Island, Peaked Island, Egg Island, Lady's Chair, Lighter Rock, Long Ledge, and Red Rock.
A Board of Regents was organized by Brigham Young to establish a university in the Salt Lake Valley.
In 1892, the school's name was changed to the University of Utah, and John R. Park began arranging to obtain land belonging to the U. S. Army's Fort Douglas on the east bench of the Salt Lake Valley, where the university moved permanently in 1900.
It is located on the east bench of the Salt Lake Valley, close to the Wasatch Range and approximately 2 miles east of downtown Salt Lake City.
* July 24 – After 17 months of travel, Brigham Young leads 148 Mormon pioneers into Salt Lake Valley, resulting in the establishment of Salt Lake City.
Four freestyle skiing events were held at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, at the venue in Deer Valley.
He chose to lead his people to the Salt Lake Valley in present day Utah.
) In Wyoming the Mormon emigrants followed the main Oregon / California / Mormon Trail through Wyoming to Fort Bridger, where they split from the main trail and followed ( and improved ) the crude path established by the ill-fated Donner Party of 1846 into Utah and the Salt Lake Valley.
After 1848, the travelers headed to California or Oregon resupplied at the Salt Lake Valley, and then went back over the Salt Lake Cutoff, rejoining the trail near the future Idaho-Utah border at the City of Rocks in Idaho.
It then crosses over the Smith Fork of the Bear River before ascending and crossing another pass on the Salt River Range of mountains and then descending into Star Valley Wyoming.
To avoid crossing the Salt River ( which drains into the Snake River ) which runs down Star Valley the Lander Road crossed the river when it was small and stayed west of the Salt River.
After traveling down the Salt River valley ( Star Valley ) about north the road turned almost due west near the present town of Auburn, Wyoming, and entered into the present state of Idaho along Stump Creek.
At Soda Springs was one branch of Lander Road ( established and built with government contractors in 1858 ), which had gone west from near South Pass, over the Salt River Mountains and down Star Valley before turning west near present-day Auburn, Wyoming, and entering Idaho.

Valley and valley
There are several UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Algeria including Al Qal ' a of Beni Hammad, the first capital of the Hammadid empire ; Tipasa, a Phoenician and later Roman town ; and Djémila and Timgad, both Roman ruins ; M ' Zab Valley, a limestone valley containing a large urbanized oasis ; also the Casbah of Algiers is an important citadel.
North of the mineral region is the Cereal Belt, embracing the Tennessee Valley and the counties beyond, whose richest soils are the red clays and dark loams of the river valley ; north of which are less fertile soils, produced by siliceous and sandstone formations.
The Annapolis Valley is a valley and region in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia.
They continued throughout the Annapolis Valley until the British-ordered expulsion of Acadians in 1755 which is memorialized at Grand Pré in the eastern part of the valley.
Agriculture in the Annapolis valley boomed in the late 19th century with the arrival of the Windsor and Annapolis Railway, later the Dominion Atlantic Railway, which developed large export markets for Annapolis Valley apples.
An example is the Aran Valley ( now a Gascon-speaking part of Catalonia ), for ( h ) aran is the Basque word for " valley ".
Important manufacturing centres in the region include Pictou County, Truro, the Annapolis Valley and the South Shore, and the Strait of Canso area in Nova Scotia, as well as Summerside in Prince Edward Island, and the Miramichi area, the North Shore and the upper Saint John River valley of New Brunswick.
* The Cibao Valley ( Dominican Republic ) is the largest and the most important valley of the country.
* The Hoya de Enriquillo or Neiba Valley is a remarkable valley, with a west-east direction, of low altitude ( on average 50 m with some points below sea level ) and with a great salt lake: the Enriquillo Lake.
Image: Glaciers Flow into a Greenland Valley. jpg | Image showing small glaciers spilling into a mostly dry valley in western Greenland.
There are only a few remnants of the causeway which linked the pyramid with the valley and the Valley Temple.
However, as authors Briar and Hobbs claim, " all the pyramids were robbed " by the New Kingdom, when the construction of royal tombs in a desert valley, now known as the Valley of the Kings, began.
Panorama of the Harod valley, part of the Jezreel Valley.
Īao Valley ( English: Iao, Hawaiian: Ī-ao: " cloud supreme ", pronounced similar to " EE-ow ") is a lush, stream-cut valley in West Maui, Hawaii, located west of Wailuku.
The largest Muslim group, situated in the Valley of Kashmir and estimated to number more than half the population of the entire region, lay in Indian-administered territory, with its former outlets via the Jhelum valley route blocked.
** Mole Valley, a local government district in the valley of the River Mole
The region was one of the four riverine civilizations where writing was invented ( it being the first ), along with the Nile valley in Egypt, the Indus Valley in the Indian subcontinent, and Yellow River valley in China ( although writing is also known to have arisen independently in Mesoamerica ).
" The area contains the valley of Al Taneem, the Valley of Bakkah and the valley of Abqar.
Their settlements were divided into three regions, i. e., ' Wallokirat ' that lay to the East of the Kathmandu Valley, ' Majkirat ' or Central Kirat region and ' Pallokirat ' that lay to the far East of the Kathmandu valley.
Others suggest the technology moved west from the Nile Valley, although the Iron Age in the Niger River valley and the forest region appears to predate the introduction of metallurgy in the upper savanna by more than 800 years.
The vast valley around the Po is called the Po Basin or Po Valley ( Italian Pianura Padana or Val Padana ); in time it became the main industrial area of the country.
He stayed for 12 days and described the valley ( initially called Chapel Valley ) where Jamestown is situated as “ a marvellous fair and pleasant valley, wherein divers handsome buildings and houses were set up, and especially one which was a church, which was tiled, and whitened on the outside very fair, and made with a porch, and within the church at the upper end was set an alter ....

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