He crossed the Euphrates near Hierapolis and moved eastward to Carrhae, giving the impression that his chosen route into Persian territory was down the Tigris.

A different route was chosen by the Soviets, who didn't develop a specialized indirect fire vehicle, but following a tradition of dual-purpose towed artillery, built a series of versatile assault guns with indirect fire capabilities ( example ISU-152 ).

Thomas C. Durant who was building the cross-Iowa railroad ( the M & M ) was literally banking that the Omaha route would be chosen and began buying up land in Nebraska.

The proposals call for a large canal or tunnel being excavated from the Qattara due north of depending on the route chosen to the Mediterranean Sea to bring seawater into the area.

The town of Verdun was chosen for this because it was an important stronghold, surrounded by a ring of forts, that lay near the German lines and because it guarded the direct route to Paris.

The Pas de Calais offered a number of advantages over the chosen invasion site, such as the shortest crossing of the English Channel and the quickest route into Germany.

Dorking and nearby Box Hill were chosen as part of the route for the 2012 London Olympics Cycle Road Race.

He attempts to walk the route of neutrality to avoid choosing sides, but ends up being tricked into taking sides twice-firstly by having a Chaos dagger planted on him as he sleeps before attempting to take the middle path in a three-way choice between the extremes of Order and Chaos ( this is rather appropriate: he would rather aid neither side, but his chosen method is usually the magic of Chaos ), and secondly he is coerced into aiding the Pattern to strengthen its position in Shadows, while rescuing Coral from her imprisonment.

A farmer named Ralph Clayton ( who was 90 at the time ) donated 100 acres in what would become Clayton, Missouri for the site that was ultimately chosen in part because it was on the route of the Hodiamont narrow gauge street cars which stretched from Pine Lawn through Normandy and Kinloch to Florissant.

No matter the route chosen, one must meet these forces severally on the way.

Columbus reconsidered a few months later ; but by that time, the railway had already chosen a route well to the west of the town.

" This route was chosen in 1913 to become part of the historic Lincoln Highway which was the first road across America, connecting New York City to San Francisco.

The site of Groom, Texas, was chosen in 1902, along the route of the Chicago, Rock Island and Gulf Railway.

According to the Tacoma Public Library's Washington Place Names database: " In 1900, it was chosen as a station by the Spokane-Coeur d ' Alene Electric Railway, and was named Woodard's for the family who owned the land along the railway route.

The team will have chosen a route or two and in some cases it may involve 3 routes that are designated for travel along, which avoids the most dangerous " choke points ", such as one-lane bridges or tunnels, because these routes have no way of escape and they are more vulnerable to ambush.

Meusebach discovered that the Prince Solms choice of the inadequate Carlshafen ( Indianola ) as a port of entry, as well as the isolated route to New Braunfels, was deliberately chosen to keep the Germans from interacting with any Americans.

The first route was chosen, based on excellent water supplies at Cirencester, although the estimates of the amount of water available proved to be wildly optimistic.

The destination would be chosen only to cause the flight plan route to cross Cuba.

Even before the first feasibility studies began, the oil companies had chosen the approximate route of the pipeline.

He had no specific route chosen, except to go by the " wildest, leafiest, and least trodden way I could find.

Bridger Pass would later be the chosen route for both the Union Pacific Railroad and later Interstate 80.

Bus spotter societies may organise ' fan charters ' by chartering a bus of choice and photograph on different parts of the chosen route.

Thus the long, impractical route over difficult terrain was chosen.

In November 1941, he was chosen by Göring to command Germany's fighter force as General der Jagdflieger, succeeding Werner Mölders who had just been killed in an air crash on route to attend the funeral of Ernst Udet.

The Pas de Calais offered a number of advantages over the chosen invasion site, such as the shortest crossing of the English Channel and the quickest route into Germany.

In Wisconsin, take route 55 north of Shawano or routes 78 and 60 from Portage to Prairie Du Chien.

In Fido's heyday, sending a Netmail message to a user on a distant FidoNet node, or participating in an Echomail discussion could take days, especially if any FidoNet nodes or hubs in the message's route only made one transfer call per day.

A new trade route north was discovered, and Sabun outfitted royal caravans to take advantage of it.

TACV Cabo Verde Airlines opened a route from London Stansted in October 2008 though it was rumoured that flights were being cancelled due to minimum take up though with effect from May 2008, TACV now fly direct from London Gatwick every Thursday to Sal and Praia.

These two tribes intended to pass into Italy through the western passes, while the Cimbri and the Tigurines were to take the northern route across the Rhine and later across the Tirolian Alps.

The NRA branched into three divisions: to the west was Wang Jingwei, who led a column to take Wuhan ; Bai Chongxi's column went east to take Shanghai ; Chiang himself led in the middle route, planning to take Nanjing before pressing ahead to capture Beijing.

However insurance companies are reluctant to take on the job of funding such treatments, preferring instead to take the safer route of awaiting the results of clinical testing and leaving the funding of such trials to the manufacturer seeking a license.

The easiest route would take them through the Rhône valley, and thus through the Roman Provincia Narbonensis.

In this case wheeled vehicles would either have to take another route ( leaving the tanks without IFV support and the IFVs without tank protection ) or the tanks would have to stay where the wheeled IFVs can go and drastically limit their own tactical mobility.

She also went to Greece to take footage of the games ' original site at Olympia, where she was aided by Greek photographer Nelly, along with route of the inaugural torch relay.

Plans were made to take advantage of this route to build an interoceanic canal, the Nicaragua Canal, but the Panama Canal was built instead.

The objective of founding the town was to take control of the neighbouring gold mines and to establish a garrison at a strategic passage: the site controlled the route between Amphipolis and Neapolis, part of the great royal route which crosses Macedonia from the east to the west and which was reconstructed later by the Roman Empire as the Via Egnatia.

; Latency: It might take a long time for each packet to reach its destination, because it gets held up in long queues, or takes a less direct route to avoid congestion.

( Spinola's preferred route would take him through the Republic of Genoa, the Duchy of Milan, through the Val Telline, around hostile Switzerland bypassing along the north shore of Lake Constance, then through Alsace, the Archbishopric of Strasbourg, then through the Electorate of the Palatinate, and then finally through the Archbishopric of Trier, Jülich and Berg and on to the Dutch Republic ).

In comparison, trolleybuses usually require loops that take up much space, and omnibuses often travel over a circular route at termini thus doing damage to more roads, as well as being confusing to potential passengers.

Of a crew of 185 only three survived ; lost was Lord Belhaven who was en route to take up the Governorship of Barbados.

The Internet Protocol does not require that packets between two hosts take the same route.

In December 1862, with the approval of Halleck, Grant moved to take Vicksburg by an overland route, aided by Charles Hamilton and James McPherson, in combination with a water expedition on the Mississippi led by Maj. Gen. Sherman.

** Moluccan terrorists take over a school in Bovensmilde, northern Netherlands ( 105 hostages ), and a passenger train on the Bovensmilde-Assen route nearby ( 90 hostages ) at the same time.

The rebellion forces Charles to abandon the Ninth Crusade while still en route to the target city of Constantinople, and allows King Peter III of Aragon to take over rule of the island from Charles ( which in turn leads to Peter's excommunication by Pope Martin IV ).

The rebellion forces Charles to abandon the Ninth Crusade while still en route to the target city of Constantinople, and allows King Peter III of Aragon to take over rule of the island from Charles ( which in turn leads to Peter's excommunication by Pope Martin IV ).