We would all meet at ten o'clock at the Kehl bridge, five miles from Strasbourg, and march triumphantly across into Germany.

Alarmed by this display of weapons, I looked toward the bridge and there saw, stretched across the near side, a cordon of policemen, their bicycles forming a roadblock before which stood several French officers in uniform and a small waspish man in a brown derby.

On the other side of the Golden Horn I rode through Eminonu Square, with Yeni Cami, or the New Mosque, which dates from the Seventeenth Century, just across from the entrance to the bridge.

Colonel Frederick W. Lander, impersonated, will again make his break-neck ride down the steep declivity of Talbott's ( now College ) Hill and thunder across the bridge to join Colonel Benjamin F. Kelley's ( West ) Virginia Infantry, then swarming through the streets in pursuit of the retreating Confederates.

General Jones was fresh from a long series of bridge burnings, including the long bridge at Fairmont, and, after seeing a great drove of horses and cattle he had collected safely across the bridge, he sent his men to work piling combustibles in and around it.

It dawns on you that instead of a lump to fill the seat across the bridge table from you, he was a man, and that because Gratt Shafer was making you miserable, you were passing it down to him, to Gratt Shafer's substitute, that other guy.

Ancus Marcius incorporated the Janiculum into the city, fortifying it with a wall and connecting it with the city by a wooden bridge across the Tiber, the Pons Sublicius.

The wooden bridge, dating from the Middle Ages, across the Aar was destroyed by floods three times in thirty years, and was replaced with a steel suspension bridge in 1851.

Tied arch bridge across Tunga river at Thirthahalli, Karnataka, India

In 1927 welding pioneer Stefan Bryła designed the first welded road bridge in the world, which was later built across the river Słudwia Maurzyce near Łowicz, Poland in 1929.

Robert Stephenson's High Level Bridge across the River Tyne in Newcastle upon Tyne, completed in 1849, is an early example of a double-deck bridge.

Bourne contends that as most Gigantopithecus fossils are found in China, and as many species of animals migrated across the Bering land bridge, it is not unreasonable to assume that Gigantopithecus might have as well.

Meanwhile engineers repaired a stone bridge across the Nebel, and constructed five additional bridges or causeways across the marsh between Blenheim and Oberglauheim.

: The barbarians thought that Romans would not be able to cross it without a bridge, and consequently bivouacked in rather careless fashion on the opposite bank ; but he sent across a detachment of Germanic tribesmen, who were accustomed to swim easily in full armour across the most turbulent streams.

However, the Germans swam across again and some others got over by a bridge a little way up-stream, after which they assailed the barbarians from several sides at once and cut down many of them.

These proved crucial in 1813 and 1814, when Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington's army besieged the city in the Napoleonic Wars, only taking it when they used a bridge of ships across the Adour to position artillery around the city.

In 1902 William Crossing wrote that he had been told by an old moorman that some of the granite blocks from the tomb's pedestal had also been used to make a clapper bridge across a stream flowing into the River Swincombe near the farm.

Carrying over 81, 000 vehicles daily, it is also the shortest bridge across San Francisco Bay at 1. 63 miles ( 8, 600 feet / 2, 622 m ).

Like the San Mateo Bridge to the north, power lines parallel the bridge across the bay.

Bus service across the bridge is provided by the Dumbarton Express, run by a consortium of local transit agencies ( SamTrans, AC Transit, VTA and others ) which connects to BART at Union City and Caltrain at Palo Alto and California Avenue.

Grabski's shanty was beyond the bridge over the River Bystrzyca near the rail center.

Sturdy and strong after more than a century of continuous use, the old covered, wooden bridge that spans the Tygartis Valley River at Philippi will have a distinctive part in the week-long observance of the first land battle of the Civil War at its home site, May 28th to June 3rd.

The girders of a shattered Dog River bridge lay strewn for half a mile downstream.

Her father's attention would be on the road ahead and it wouldn't deviate an inch until he crossed the bridge at the Falls and took the River Road to LaSalle and, finally, turned in at their own driveway at 387 Heather Heights.

* 2007 – The I-35W Mississippi River bridge spanning the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota, collapses during the evening rush hour.

The station is located slightly east of the Mansei bridge (), on the Akihabara side of the Kanda River.

The Si-o-se Pol bridge over Zayandeh River is an example of Safavid dynasty ( 1502 – 1722 ) bridge design.

Bamboo bridge over the Serayu River in Java, Indonesia ( ca.

Primitive suspension bridge over the Astore River | River Astore

With the span of, the Solkan Bridge over the Soča River at Solkan in Slovenia is the second largest stone bridge in the world and the longest railroad stone bridge.

The longest cable-stayed bridge is the Sutong Bridge over the Yangtze River in China.

* Mittlere Brücke ( current structure built 1905, original bridge built 1225 as the first bridge to cross the Rhine River )

The bridge serves to cross the Magdalena River between the Departments of Colombia | Departments of Atlántico Department | Atlántico and Magdalena Department | Magdalena.

However, they heard of a plot to ambush them by the people of Plymstock, at a bridge over the River Tavy.

* 1953 – Tangiwai disaster: A railway bridge is destroyed by a lahar at Tangiwai, in the Central North Island of New Zealand, sending a fully loaded passenger train into the Whangaehu River, and killing 153 people.

Rock Island Railroad built the first railroad bridge across the Mississippi River in 1856.

* 1876 – The Ashtabula River Railroad bridge disaster occurs, leaving 64 injured and 92 dead at Ashtabula, Ohio.

The Detroit River International Crossing is a new bridge project expected to be completed in approximately 2013 ; it will directly connect Highway 401 in Canada to Interstate 75 in the U. S.

This stubborn resistance on the west bank of the Severn north of the Teme was becoming a serious problem for the Parliamentarians, so Cromwell led Parliamentary reinforcements from the eastern side of the town over the Severn pontoon bridge to aid Fleetwood.

There is no doubt that the final from Powick bridge and Mill to its confluence with the river Severn that the Teme is ( or was ) navigable.

River Teme at Powick Mill and the A449 road | A449 road bridge

His troops excavated a defensive ditch in a field on the opposite side of the River Teme from Ludlow, near the bridge which gave the battle its name.

The part-Mediaeval bridge over the River Teme, linking Tenbury to Burford Photo, Shropshire was rebuilt by Thomas Telford following flood damage in 1795.