The first Tejon Pass ( original ) between the Mojave Desert ( and New Spain ) over the Tehachapi Mountains to the southern San Joaquin Valley floor ( future site of Bakersfield ) had been discovered by Garcés in 1776, eastward from the Anza Colonizing Expedition route.

The facility, which opened in 1887, was named after Padre Francisco Garcés, a noted Franciscan Spain | Spanish priest who made several journeys through the region in 1771 and 1774 en route between southern Arizona and the Spanish missions in California | California Missions.

After winning over the Sanhaja Berber tribe, they quickly took control of the entire desert trade route, seizing Sijilmasa at the northern end in 1054, and Aoudaghost at the southern end in 1055.

" Meanwhile, Overkirk took the port of Ostend on 4 July thus opening a direct route to the English Channel for communication and supply, but the Allies were making scant progress against Dendermonde whose governor, the Marquis de Valée, was stubbornly resisting.

The squadron took a circuitous route to avoid alerting the Dutch.

He took a route through Canada to avoid detection.

He used this knowledge while working on the Bolton and Leigh Railway, and the Liverpool and Manchester Railway ( L & MR ), executing a series of difficult cuts, embankments and stone viaducts to smooth the route the railways took.

The route took him through Tlemcen, Béjaïa, and then Tunis, where he stayed for two months.

From Sinope he took a sea route to Crimea, arriving so in the Golden Horde realm.

He took over control of the city from the local ulema and quickly established control over the trade route between Herat and Iran, a large source of revenue.

This highway can now be traversed in a few hours, while in 2002 the trip took over 9 hours along a very bumpy ( and scenic ) route.

Abandoned by the Dutch, the island became a French colony when, in September 1715, Guillaume Dufresne d ' Arsel landed and took possession of this port of call on the route to India.

The Coalition took 30 seats from Labor en route to a 55-seat majority, the largest in Australian history.

It took the combined effort and interest of conservationists, politicians and especially businesses — namely, the Northern Pacific Railroad, whose route through Montana would greatly benefit by the creation of this new tourist attraction — to ensure the passage of that landmark enabling legislation by the United States Congress to create Yellowstone National Park.

From 1930 to 1931 the US Army Corp of Engineers survey team of 300 men, surveyed the route of any future canal, called the Forty-Niners route because it followed closely the route that miners took in the 1840s California Gold Rush.

At first the French and English crusaders travelled together, but the armies split at Lyon, as Richard decided to go by sea, and Philip took the overland route through the Alps to Genoa.

Knowing that Crusader forces were massed upon the frontier to intercept him, he took the desert route across the Sinai Peninsula to Ailah at the head of the Gulf of Aqaba.

He took his army by an inland route, avoiding the Roman allies along the coast.

While working on the uranium route, Mehmood took different approaches for the enriched uranium.

Following 1974, after Dr. Qadeer Khan took over the uranium enrichment route from him as he was dissatisfied with Mehmood's progress.

During the Iron Age, inhabitants took advantage of the high ground by building hill forts along the Ridgeway to help defend the trading route.

Unlike the 8600's brute-force approach to performance, the STAR took an entirely different route.

From there, she probably took a common route for fleeing slaves-northeast along the Choptank River, through Delaware and then north into Pennsylvania.

From here he took the land route to Yokohama, visiting along the way the three big cities of Osaka, Kyoto and Tokyo.

He took so long to arrive for a visit to the French court that his brother-in-law, King Louis IX of France, banned priests from Henry's route.

In Roman times, a main route ran south from the Baltic coast in through the land of the Boii ( modern Czech Republic and Slovakia ) to the head of the Adriatic Sea ( modern Gulf of Venice ).

They then headed south down the coast of Attica, en route to complete the final objective of the campaign — to punish Athens.

The coastal lowlands north of Manta were conquered, not by the Spanish, but by blacks from the Guinean coast who, as slaves, were shipwrecked en route from Panama to Peru in 1570.

The various Antarctic species may have either used the same route, or traveled down the west coast of Africa.

Once on Ireland but outside the south west there are two confirmed four-posters, both on the east coast, suggesting a route down that side of the island, to the region around County Cork, where another proliferation occurs.

It formed the backbone of a waterway stretching some 382 miles ( 614 km ), linking a number of lakes and rivers to provide a route from Gothenburg ( Swedish: Göteborg ) on the west coast to Söderköping on the Baltic Sea via the river Göta älv and the Trollhätte kanal, through the large lakes Vänern and Vättern.

En route to the coast at the start of his journey to China, Ibn Battuta and his party were attacked by a group of bandits.

Although Lewis and Clark failed to find a commercial route to Asia, they demonstrated the possibility of overland travel to the Pacific coast.

The motorway system has been incorporated with the Øresund Bridge ; the European route E20 goes over the bridge and then, together with the European route E6 follows the Swedish west coast from Malmö – Helsingborg to Gothenburg.

The Northwest Passage is a sea route through the Arctic Ocean, along the northern coast of North America via waterways amidst the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

A ring road around the island's coast is the major route, and roads cross the central plateau linking Alofi to the villages of Lakepa, Liku and Hakupu on the opposite coast.

If this is his route, in all likelihood he did not actually circumnavigate Britain, but returned along the coast of Germany, accounting for his somewhat larger perimeter.

While the Panama route was short it was also labor intensive and expensive because of the loading and unloading and laden-down trek required to get from the one coast to the other.

The Panama route was also vulnerable to attack from pirates ( mostly Dutch and English ) and from ' new world ' Africans called cimarrons who had freed themselves from enslavement and lived in communes or palenques around the Camino Real in Panama's Interior, and on some of the islands off Panama's Pacific coast.

Mutley Plain lies on the route of an ancient road linking Bilburgh, a Bronze Age settlement on the coast at Sutton Pool which later formed the nucleus of the city of Plymouth, to the north.

Henry attacked Gwynedd first, but instead of following the usual invasion route along the north coast he attacked from the south, following a route over the Berwyn hills.

Saudi Arabia has several hundred route kilometres of standard gauge railways linking the capital Riyadh with coast of the Persian Gulf.

* Dakar-Lagos Highway running along the West African coast and called by the Economic Community of West African States ( ECOWAS ) the Trans – West African Coastal Highway ( though ECOWAS considers this route to start in Nouakchott, Mauritania ).

For centuries the Homs Gap has been a favorite trade and invasion route from the coast to the country's interior and to other parts of Asia.

With its location in the India-China sea trade route, several trading towns flourished, especially in the eastern coast, and were influenced by Indian religions.

Originally connected to the Dorset coast, the Ridgeway provided a reliable trading route to The Wash in Norfolk.