Allied assault on the Schellenberg – taken by coup de main on 2 July – provided the Allies with an excellent river crossing.

In the latter painting on silk ( image and description provided in the link ), bald-headed Buddhist Luohan are depicted in a practical setting of washing clothes by a river.

The dedicatory inscription in the fresco by Melozzo da Forlì in the Vatican Palace records: " You gave your city temples, streets, squares, fortifications, bridges and restored the Acqua Vergine as far as the Trevi ..." In addition to restoring the aqueduct that provided Rome an alternative to the river water that had made the city famously unhealthy, he restored or rebuilt over 30 of Rome's dilapidated churches, among them San Vitale ( 1475 ) and Santa Maria del Popolo, and added seven new ones.

Ancient Sparta was built on the banks of the Evrotas River, the main river of Laconia, which provided it with a source of fresh water.

Mortimer's uncle, Roger Mortimer de Chirk finally died in prison, but Mortimer managed to escape the Tower in August 1323, making a hole in the stone wall of his cell and then escaping onto the roof, before using rope ladders provided by an accomplice to get down to the River Thames, across the river and then on eventually to safety in France.

Seven streams provided the city with water, and only when the flow of the Rhine was changed in 1530, was the city located on the river.

The Mesna river has provided the basis for several small industries through the years, but Lillehammer is now all but industry-less.

Chinon offers an easy crossing point by means of a central island in the Vienne, and the rocks dominating the shore provided not only a natural fort, but also protection against the annual flooding of the river

Although the river became silted up and was unnavigable for much of the twentieth century, in the eighteenth century it provided important links with coastal shipping routes both for traditional businesses and for newly evolving ones such as paper goods and iron smelting.

The area was then farmed for several hundred years, while the river provided opportunities for fishing, boatbuilding and trade.

In the 1840s, the Wabash and Erie Canal began to operate and provided even broader shipping opportunities, but the canal favored towns which were on the " right side " of the river ; the canal was on the Fountain County side, and towns like Baltimore dwindled as a result.

People threw coins, gold, jewelry, and precious gifts into the river, in thanks for the life-giving water and returning benefits derived from the wealth provided by her fertility to the goddess.

Since 2006, the restored pleasure steamer the Southern Belle has provided regular river excursions from the town's Haven Bridge.

Camping is allowed on the northern banks of the river at a campground where some facilities are provided.

Although shoals on the nearby Tennessee River made the river nearly impassable, a Federal Highway completed in 1820 provided the area with good access to markets.

The river provided water supply, power, and drainage and it bequeathed a natural beauty as it flowed at the base of hills that marched away on either side.

Imagine the surprise of Captain Snow when he found a previously little known river outlet and harbor which provided a safe refuge.

Having failed to secure a spot along the river that provided enough water power to run his mill, Talbot dismantled the settlement and moved to the present location of Addison, and by the fall of 1836, milling operations restarted.

The Bloomington Ferry provided river crossings until 1889 when the Bloomington Ferry Bridge was built.

Directly across the Red River on the North side of Highway 200, a small pond called Grandin Lake has provided the only close example of a freshwater ecosystem that is not a river.

In 1935, major flooding of the nearby Republican River provided an impetus to build a dam on the river.

This brought more trade to the town, provided for shipping Ohio coal to the East Coast, and improved access on both sides of the river.

The dam also provided water to the Susquehanna Division of the Pennsylvania Canal System which was constructed on the western bank of the river.

The city developed along the river, which provided the earliest transportation pathways for trade and travel.

straddles Equator ; very narrow strip of land that controls the lower Congo River and is the only outlet to South Atlantic Ocean ; dense tropical rainforest in central river basin and eastern highlands

The isolation threshold should be at Heinjoki to the east of Vyborg, where the Baltic Sea and Ladoga were connected by a strait or a river outlet at least until the formation of the River Neva, and possibly even much later, until 12th century AD or so.

Left without any outlet to the sea, Bolivia wanted to absorb the Chaco and expand its territory up to the Río Paraguay in order to gain a river port.

The demise of Ur was perhaps owing to drought, changing river patterns, and the silting of the outlet to the Persian Gulf.

The last section has less gradient, and the river meanders before entering the Dead Sea, about 422 metres below sea level, which has no outlet.

Due to its great distance from the ocean it is extremely arid and possesses no river outlet.

During medium to low river flows, coarser sediment generally collects in the hapua ; while some of the finer sediment can be transported through the outlet to the coast.

During low to medium river flows, the outlet from the lagoon to the sea becomes offset in the direction of longshore drift.

To lose this link via closure of the hapua outlet could result in losing entire generations of specific species as they may need to migrate to the ocean or the river as a vital part of their lifecycle.

In 1531 Diego de Ordaz, starting at the principal outlet in the delta, the Boca de Navios, sailed up the river to the Meta, and Antonio de Berrio sailed down the Casanare, to the Meta, and then down the Orinoco and back to Coro.

He is also credited with determining the Great Basin as endorheic, that is, having no outlet to the sea or a river.

Resacas are naturally cut off from the river, having no inlet or outlet.

The historian John D. Winters describes Lake Providence as " a beautiful oxbow lake some six miles ( 10 km ) long, an old Mississippi river bed with an outlet through Baxter Bayou into Bayou Macon and thus into the Tensas, Ouachita, Black, and Red rivers.

The city is situated on the eastern edge of the large Bonnet Carré Spillway, which provides for an outlet from the Mississippi River to Lake Pontchartrain during flooding of the river.

The city, both lakes, and the river lie in the Traverse Gap, the bed of ancient, south-flowing Glacial River Warren, the outlet to Glacial Lake Agassiz which, when drained, became the valley of the north-flowing Red River of the North.

Before the steel bridge was built in 1900, all timber north of Zalma had to be transported to Lutesville, the only outlet to the railroad, for after the mill dam was built, the river could be forded in dry seasons only.

In the twilight of the summer evenings we were wont to sit at the front of the old home and hear the pleasant and oft recurring sound of the boatman ’ s horn miles away, wafted across the river and giving signal to the keeper of the outlet lock West Nanticoke to make ready for the passage of boats in and out of the canal.

Nearer the mouth of the river, the Brandon Engine was the main outlet for the drainage of the northern half of Burnt Fen from 1830 until 1958.

The river remains relatively salt-free for much of its length, unlike most rivers with no outlet to the sea.

The lake's only river outlet, the Jordan River, is a tributary of the Great Salt Lake and is highly regulated with pumps.

Phlan is located at the outlet of the river near lower center.

For those interested in bird watching, the river outlet, known locally as Altaosen is well worth a visit.

There is usually a river at both ends of a ribbon lake, one being the inlet, and the other, the outlet — though in the case of present day Lake Washington, inlet rivers are located at both ends.