During 1855 Bosquet's corps occupied the right wing of the besieging armies opposite the Mamelon and Malakov.

This is a play on Field Marshal Pierre Bosquet's memorable line, referring to the Charge of the Light Brigade, C ’ est magnifique, mais ce n ’ est pas la guerre (" It is magnificent, but it is not war ").

On 8 September 1855 at noon, the whole of Bosquet's corps suddenly swarmed up to the Malakoff.

When the Anglo-French troops formed the siege of Sevastopol, Bosquet's corps of two divisions protected them against interruption.

Their territory lay to the north, near the sources of the Alabama, the Tombigbee, the Tennessee, and Cumberland rivers, and was easily accessible to traders among the near-by Cherokees.

Once he was firmly established in the Northern March, Albert's covetous eye lay also on the thinly populated lands to the north and east.

Fires started by the Nika rioters consumed Constantine's basilica of St Sophia, the city's principal church, which lay to the north of the Augustaeum.

The kingdom was bounded to the north by the River Stour and the Kingdom of East Anglia, to the south by the River Thames and Kent, to the east lay the North Sea and to the west Mercia.

These extended southwards along the Red Sea coast and penetrating the Arabian bifacial cultures, which became progressively more Neolithic and pastoral, and extending north and eastwards, to lay the foundations for the tent-dwelling Martu and Akkadian peoples of Mesopotamia.

To the north lay the territory of the Caledonia, by name whose people were described as " Picti ", in Latin, meaning ‘ painted ones ’.

Though the approximate site is known, it is not easy to reconcile literary indications to determine the gardens ' exact location, whether or not they lay on both sides of the Servian ager and both north and south of the porta Esquilina.

It has been proposed that the base of Clann Áeda mac Cináeda's power lay in the north of the kingdom of Alba, beyond the Mounth ( eastern Grampians ) in what had once been Fortriu and which was now called Moray ( in Irish annals of the period, MacBethad is occasionally referred to as King of Fortriu, as well as King / Mormaer of Moray, before his succession to the throne of Alba ).

The belief that a route lay to the far north persisted for several centuries and led to numerous expeditions into the Arctic, including the attempt by Sir John Franklin in 1845.

In the west lay the three counties of Maine, Anjou and Touraine, and to the north of Blois was the Duchy of Normandy, from which Duke William had conquered England in 1066.

In 1954, Prime Minister Nehru wrote a memo calling for India's borders to be clearly defined and demarcated ; in line with previous Indian philosophy, Indian maps showed a border that, in some places, lay north of the McMahon Line.

During the Mesozoic era ( about 250 to 65 million years ago ) a large ocean ( Tethys Ocean ), floored by oceanic lithosphere existed in-between the supercontinents of Gondwana and Laurasia ( which lay to the south and north respectively ; Robertson & Dixon, 2006 ).

There were ancient kingdoms too ( the era of the Mahajanapads ), that lay in parts of north rajasthan ; that were named on the saraswati river.

Noteworthy is the fact that, at an early date, the ancient Greeks employed the term " Thrace " to refer to all of the territory which lay north of Thessaly inhabited by the Thracians, a region which " had no definite boundaries " and to which other regions ( like Macedonia and even Scythia ) were added.

Their region lay on the periphery of the Greek world and was far from peaceful ; for many centuries, it remained a frontier area contested with the Illyrian peoples to the north.

To the north of Macedonia lay various non-Greek peoples such as the Paeonians due north, the Thracians to the northeast, and the Illyrians, with whom the Macedonians were frequently in conflict, to the northwest.

The frontier in New England lay to the north ; in Nevada to the east ; in Florida to the south.

Five Roman roads radiated from Tours, which lay on the main thoroughfare between the Frankish north and Aquitania, with Spain beyond.

Conversely, a German controlled major rail head lay only to the north of their positions.

After the defeat of the Cimmerians and Scythians, all of Nebuchadnezzar's expeditions were directed westwards, although the powerful Median empire lay to the north.

The Spanish believed that cities of gold, such as the ones of the Aztecs, whom they had previously conquered, lay to the north in the unexplored territory.

A number of groups have claimed possible descent from the Scythians, including the Ossetians, Pashtuns ( in particular, the Sakzai tribe ), Jats and the Parthians ( whose homelands lay to the east of the Caspian Sea and who were thought to have come there from north of the Caspian ).

To the north-west of the kingdom originally lay the realm of Arnor ; to the north, Gondor was neighboured by the Wilderland and, after its settlement, by Rohan ; to the north-east, by the land of Rhûn ; to the east, by Sauron's realm of Mordor ; to the south, by the deserts of Harad.

To the north of Macedonia lay various non-Greek peoples such as the Paeonians due north, the Thracians to the northeast, and the Illyrians, with whom the Macedonians were frequently in conflict, to the northwest.

" In response to Marlborough's manoeuvres, the Elector and Marsin, conscious of their numerical disadvantage with only 40, 000 men, moved their forces to the entrenched camp at Dillingen on the north bank of the Danube.

It was not until the latter part of August that troops were brought by land into the neighbourhood of Antony's camp on the north side of the strait.

But during these months not only was Agrippa continuing his descent upon Greek towns and coasts, but in various cavalry skirmishes, Octavian had so far prevailed that Antony abandoned the north side of the strait and confined his soldiers to the southern camp.

Frémont fled Mexican-controlled California, and went north to Oregon, making camp at Klamath Lake.

In October 2003, following a suicide bombing carried out by a member of Palestinian Islamic Jihad in Haifa that killed 20 Israeli citizens, Israeli Defense Forces attacked a suspected Palestinian militant training camp 15 kilometers north of Damascus.

The Romans managed to set up a fortified night camp, and the next morning broke out into the open country north of the Wiehen Hills, near the modern town of Ostercappeln.

Dutch colonial administrator Jan van Riebeeck established a resupply camp for the Dutch East India Company some 50 km north of the cape in Table Bay on 6 April 1652 and this eventually developed into Cape Town.

Some sources give Achiktash as the Kyrgyz name for this 7, 134 m mountain on the border with Tajikistan, but it seems that Achiktash, or more properly Achik-Tash, is the name of a plateau and a base camp at an altitude of 3, 600 m on a popular northern climbing route to Lenin Peak, which starts in the southern Kyrgyz city of Osh, a day's drive north of the border.

The reconnaissance of the preceding days informed him of the location of the Gothic camp north of the city.

Most of them reside in the refugee camp Osire north of Windhoek.

He made two other early British talkies: Wolves with Dorothy Gish ( 1930 ) from a play set in a whaling camp in the frozen north, and Down River ( 1931 ), in which he played a drug smuggler.

The Westerbork transit camp (, ) was a World War II Nazi refugee, detention and transit camp in Hooghalen, ten kilometres north of Westerbork, in the northeastern Netherlands.

Yap, apparently describing the early period, places the Chanyu's main camp north of Shanxi with the Wise King of the Left holding the area north of Beijing and the Wise King of the Right holding the Ordos Loop area as far as Gansu.

Brutus put his camp on the north while Cassius on the south of the via Egnatia.

Frémont then fled Mexican-controlled California, and went north to Oregon, making camp at Klamath Lake.

The Civil War ( 1861 – 65 ) brought one of Georgia's most notable and notorious landmarks to the area, when a small village named Andersonville, nine miles ( 14 km ) north of Americus on the county's northern edge, was selected by Confederate authorities as the site for a prisoner of war camp.

The Camp de Mourmelon ( formerly known as Camp de Châlons ) is a military camp of circa 10, 000 hectares located near Mourmelon-le-Grand 22 km north.

According to Grinnell's account, based on the testimony of the Cheyenne warriors who survived the fight, at least part of Custer's command attempted to ford the river at the north end of the camp but were driven off by stiff resistance from Indian sharpshooters firing from the brush along the west bank of the river.

* Lake Pleasant Camp is an aquatics and nature based camp located at the Desert Outdoor Center at Lake Pleasant north of central Phoenix in Peoria, Arizona.

A second camp site is located further north at Middle Rock, however there are no facilities here.

The camp is easily accessible with its main entrance on Council Bay Road, seven miles north of Holmen, WI, and four miles southeast of Galesville, WI.

Camp Buffalo, near Buffalo, IN ( north and east of Indiana Beach ) was the now central camp.

Just north of Florence during World War II was located a large prisoner of war camp for German and Italian prisoners of war, mainly captured during the North Africa campaign.