During 11 August, Tallard pushed forward from the river crossings at Dillingen ; by 12 August, the Franco-Bavarian forces were encamped behind the small river Nebel near the village of Blenheim on the plain of Höchstädt.

Soon the Allied infantry could no longer keep up, but their cavalry were off the leash, heading through the gathering night for the crossings on the Dyle river.

With Switzerland joining the Schengen Area on December 12, 2008, immigration checks were no longer carried out at the crossings.

In 2010 stone tools were discovered on Flores dating from 1 million years ago, which is the oldest evidence anywhere in the world that early man had the technology to make sea crossings at this very early time.

In 2011 evidence was uncovered in neighbouring East Timor, showing that 42, 000 years ago these early settlers had high-level maritime skills, and by implication the technology needed to make ocean crossings to reach Australia and other islands, as they were catching and consuming large numbers of big deep sea fish such as tuna.

Critics, including the Center of Biological Diversity and New Mexico Department of Game and Fish, were concerned the jaguar was being sacrificed for the government's new border fence, which is to be built along many of the cat's typical crossings between the United States and Mexico.

River crossings were achieved by bridges, or pontes.

The king specifically issued the order that all river crossings were to be held.

Eventually, the city assumed maintenance responsibility for the tunnels, and watertight hatches were installed at the river crossings.

Multiple ferries were established on the Missouri River, Kansas River, Little Blue River, Elkhorn River, Loup River, Platte River, South Platte River, North Platte River, Laramie River, Green River, Bear River, two crossings of the Snake River, John Day River, Deschutes River, Columbia River, as well as many other smaller streams.

At dangerous or difficult river crossings, ferries or toll bridges were set up and bad places on the trail were either repaired or bypassed.

Until enough crossings were established, the river presented a formidable barrier, with Belgic tribes and Anglo-Saxon kingdoms being defined by which side of the river they were on.

The earliest known major crossings of the Thames by the Romans were at London Bridge and Staines Bridge.

Many foot crossings were established across the weirs that were built on the non-tidal river, and some of these remained when the locks were built – for example at Benson Lock.

Many who succeeded in crossing it converged on a mill south of the town of Tewkesbury and a weir in the town itself, where there were crossings over the Avon.

Transitory dues on the use of waterways, roads, bridges and crossings were then an accepted way of taxing which could constitute a great part of a state's income.

There were many docks and ferry crossings throughout Clay County to transport local crops and livestock to major markets.

In the later twentieth century, a series of road crossings were built.

* In 2008, some 24 border crossings except Kileh in Sardasht ( West Azarbaijan ) and Yazdan in Southern Khorasan were active nationwide.

Those traveling south of the Platte crossed the South Platte River with its muddy and treacherous crossings using one of about three ferries ( in dry years it could sometimes be forded without a ferry ) before continuing up the North Platte River valley to Fort Laramie in present-day Wyoming.

Backpackers face many risks, including adverse weather, difficult terrain, treacherous river crossings, and hungry or unpredictable animals.

A large volume of railroad freight moves through Memphis, because of its two heavy-duty Mississippi River railroad crossings, which carry several major east-west railroad freight lines, and also because of the major north-south railroad lines through Memphis which connect with such major cities as Chicago, St. Louis, Indianapolis, Louisville, New Orleans, Dallas, Houston, Mobile, and Birmingham.

This is because pedestrians sometimes use the crossings without looking to see that cars have seen them and are actually stopping.

Many thought that the route would most likely go through either Minnedosa or Rapid City, Manitoba because they were both located at natural river crossings.

The track through downtown Sheboygan Falls has been of interest to railfans because of a number of interesting features, including an iron trestle over the Sheboygan River, a small section of street running where the line runs at grade along city streets, and antiquated " wig-wag " signals at several crossings.

Tsim Sha Tsui and Admiralty stations are deeper than the others ( such as Sham Shui Po ) because they precede harbour crossings.

Land-based systems such as VOR and DME, because they operate " line of sight ", are mostly useless for ocean crossings, except in initial and final legs within about of those facilities.

The maximum speed for all LRVs is 80 km / h, although the rarely reach that speed because of the many grade crossings between stops and the close proximity between stops in Tuen Mun, Yuen Long, and Tin Shui Wai.

As the patrols of the Constabulary increased, illegal crossings showed a downward trend because travelers became aware of the regulations and the effectiveness of the Constabulary in their enforcement.

Yet because the Madrid Conference was based on the idea of ‘ abandoning the dynamics of confrontation ’, but more importantly because what ensued, through the Oslo Accords were isolated arrangements on disorganised technicalities such as crossings, borders, security, prisoners and so on, numerous of people are nowadays still ‘ opposed to that ground-breaking leap ’ which the Madrid Peace Conference of 1991 represents to many.

Banff National Park offers one of the best opportunities to study the effectiveness of wildlife crossings because the park contains a wide variety of species and is bisected by a large commercial road called the Trans-Canada Highway ( TCH ).

For overhead line crossings of motorways the pylons must be rebuilt before they wear out, because these demand additional maintenance.

Sometimes at such crossings there can be problems because of the maximum pylon height allowed for flight safety reasons.

In addition, manually operated crossings often caused long delays to road traffic because of the need to close the gates and clear the distant signal before the approaching train reached it.

Despite this incident, no instructions regarding automatic crossings had ever been given to Wynn's drivers, and at Hixon the driver assumed that it was safe to cross because the police car had already done so.

Also because most north / south shipping traffic is funneled through the town utilizing three river crossings that are main routes for rail and road traffic between Birmingham, and Nashville.

Even then, Gloucester Eastgate was seen as a hindrance because the Tuffley loop line had 5 level crossings causing a lot of traffic problems.

In January 1855 the new main line to Boston was opened, but was closed six months later until December 1856 because of an injunction due to the danger of the numerous grade crossings.

It is markedly slower than the C branch, in part because of its greater density of stops and at-grade crossings.

Faced with burgeoning stock populations in the Pemberton-Lillooet and Gang Ranch areas and a lack of easy access to the huge market supplying meat to construction crews of the Canadian Pacific Railway just east, largely because of a lack of bridge crossings of the Fraser River, the ranchers of the Lillooet area lobbied the provincial government, and MLA Humphreys, to finance a trail to the coast via the Pemberton and Squamish areas to the north shore of Burrard Inlet ( i. e. what is now Vancouver harbour ), at the mouth of the Seymour River.

Rio Sirena is commonly regarded as the most dangerous of crossings, primarily because it flows directly into the massive Laguna Corcovado in the isolated heart of the park.

Many records are based on that attire, which is known as ' channel attire ' because it is stipulated in the rules for English Channel crossings and the rules for other long swims.

A mizmaze forms a pattern unlike conventional mazes and is classed as a labyrinth because the path has no junctions or crossings.