When late in the summer the full extent of the damage was assessed, all but fifty of the Scots, Swiss and metis moved up the Red to the mouth of the Pembina river.

When the work was finished, the river was turned back into its usual channel and the captives by whose hands the labor had been accomplished were put to death that none might learn their secret.

When the Ark was borne by priests into the bed of the Jordan, water in the river separated, opening a pathway for the entire host to pass through ( Josh.

When Marlow ’ s helmsman dies, Conrad describes him as “ heavier than any man on earth ,” but after Marlow throws him into the river, he is carried off “ like a wisp of grass ”.

When they began raiding again, he led a unified army of all German tribes to victory at the Battle of Riade in 933 near the river Unstrut, thus stopping the Magyar advance into Germany.

When a river is in flood, it is at its most powerful, and moves the greatest amount of sediment.

When the Arabs conquered the region much later, their name for the river became Guadalete ( River Lethe, in Arabic ).

When he meets her she is washing herself, standing with one foot on either side of the river Unius.

When he reached the end of the river, he stumbled onto a small grotto.

When the river is in flood stage, its silted delta outlets are unable to carry off the high volume of water.

When the fire engulfed a tall church west of the Chicago River, the flames crossed the south branch of the river.

When the Argonauts were lost in the desert, he guided them to find the passage from the river back to the sea.

When revolutionary forces forced their way into Norfolk, Virginia, and used waterfront buildings as cover for shots at British vessels out in the river, the response of destruction of those buildings was ingeniously used to the advantage of the rebels, who encouraged the spread of fire throughout the largely Loyalist town, and spread propaganda blaming it on the British.

When the second phase of the Tucuruí project is completed, there will be a system of locks that will make a long extension of the river navigable.

When Thames Water was privatised in 1990, its river management functions were transferred to the National Rivers Authority, in 1996 subsumed into the Environment Agency.

When the towpath changed sides, it was necessary to take the towing horse and its driver across the river.

When the canal was completed it linked the river systems of the Qiantang River, the Yangtze River, the Huai River, the Yellow River, the Wei River and the Hai River.

The traditional Chinese response of building higher and higher levees along the banks sometimes also contributed to the severity of the floods: When flood water did break through the levees, it could no longer drain back into the river bed as it would after a normal flood as the river bed was sometimes now higher than the surrounding countryside.

When the Sirens were given a name of their own they were considered the daughters of the river god Achelous, fathered upon Terpsichore, Melpomene, Sterope, or Chthon ( the Earth ; in Euripides ' Helen 167, Helen in her anguish calls upon " Winged maidens, daughters of the Earth ").

When the ice melted, the upper Great Lakes emptied into the Niagara river, which followed the rearranged topography across the Niagara Escarpment.

When Elendil founded the Kingdom of Arnor its borders were quickly extended towards the river Greyflood, and Gondor likewise extended up through Enedwaith.

When the water level is at its maximum of above sea level, which is higher than the river level downstream, the dam reservoir is on average about in length and in width.

When the river courses over resistant bedrock, erosion happens slowly, while downstream the erosion occurs more rapidly.

When a river breaks its banks and floods, it leaves behind layers of rock and mud.

When the boat had touched, the weaker ones and the two wounded men had been lifted out and carried away by the soldiers.

When go represents itself and a complement ( being equivalent, say, to go to Martinique ) in which boat did Jack go on??

When they could not do so after several days, he let them choose between death, slavery, or being set adrift in a rudderless boat.

When used as a lifting element on a " hydrofoil " boat, this upward force lifts the body of the vessel, decreasing drag and increasing speed.

When the cash strapped NAC Executive Council voted to send a team to London to persuade Dr. Banda to return to Malawi and lead the movement, the powerful Salisbury Branch raised the funds required for the two men, Masauko Chipembere and Harry Bwanausi, to make the boat trip to England.

When he went to launch a boat to investigate he was ordered at gunpoint by the natives not to approach it.

When you ’ re racing with the same boat, same engine, and same performance – the only difference between winning and losing is you.

When the boat is traveling approximately perpendicular to the wind, this is called reaching.

When ' running ', it is more efficient for the crew to sit to the rear of the boat.

When the skier is ready, the driver accelerates the boat to pull the skier out of the water.

When the Canal was finished in 1825, Governor Clinton opened it, sailing in the packet boat Seneca Chief along the Canal into Buffalo.

When Calvi's body was found, the level of the Thames had receded with the tide, giving the scene the appearance of a suicide by hanging, but at the exact time of his death, the place on the scaffolding where the rope had been tied could have been reached by a person standing in a boat.

When he recovered enough to travel, the little one-legged hero was put on a boat to the United States, with General John J. Pershing personally seeing Cher Ami off as he departed France.

When informed that the film was to be made in Africa, Davis refused the part, telling Jack Warner, " If you can't shoot the picture in a boat on the back lot, then I'm not interested.

When the three travellers finally reach the beach-after bribing a local boat contractor, taking a long swim, trekking the dense jungle, stumbling across a marijuana plantation and avoiding its heavily armed guards, and eventually jumping down a waterfall-they are faced with a tight-knit and largely self-sufficient community which has almost completely shut itself off from civilization and which has developed a sophisticated hierarchy under the quasi-dictatorial rule of a young American woman called Sal and her South African lover, Bugs, who, along with Daffy, discovered the beach and founded the community there in 1989.

When the boat is going in the direction of the wind ( i. e. downwind-see Points of sail ), the sails may be set merely to trap the air as it flows by.

When Telemachus returns, he visits Eumaeus as soon as he gets off his boat, as Athena directed him.

When the cheese was lifted out of the boat it was carried to the market by cheese carriers.

When the flood waters subsided, the boat was grounded on the mountain of Nisir.

When Wood died, he left a bequest to Tulane University on the condition that it preserve and display his sailing boat, the Nydia, for 99 years.

When he first attempted to cross he was confronted by a small group of men from the Harrison County Legion firing artillery from the shore and armed men aboard the river boat Lady Pike.

When a boat came near and wanted passage, the bridge would be unhooked from one bank and allowed to float out of the way.

When they arrived at the Ohio River, he realized that it would be unsafe for his family to traverse the river by boat due to the Indians.

When the boat overturns at the settlement of New Salem, Abe first sees and loses his heart to Ann Rutledge, the beautiful daughter of the local tavern keeper.

When the police forced the boat to dock, several Pistols fans were arrested and injured in the melee.