While Crittenden was away in Richmond, Zollicoffer moved his forces to the north bank of the upper Cumberland River near Mill Springs ( now Nancy, Kentucky ), putting the river to his back and his forces into a trap.

While John the Baptist's use of a deep river for his baptism suggests immersion, pictorial and archaeological evidence of Christian baptism from the 3rd century onward indicates that a normal form was to have the candidate stand in water while water was poured over the upper body.

While Josephus identifies the location of the imprisonment of John as Machaerus, southeast of the mouth of the Jordan river, the gospels mention no location for the place where John was imprisoned.

While the three gods are at the falls, Ótr ( in the form of an otter ) catches a salmon and eats it on a river bank, his eyes shut, when Loki hits and kills him with a stone.

While the early French explorers that encountered the sites made no use of the metals due to the difficulties in transporting it, the copper was eventually traded throughout the continent along major river routes.

* September 17 – Iraq disarmament crisis: While waiting for access to a site, UNSCOM inspectors witness and videotape Iraqi guards moving files, burning documents, and dumping waste cans into a nearby river.

; Efficiency: While there are losses in the charge / discharge cycle and in the conversion of electricity to motive power, Rutter points out that most electric boats need only about 1. 5 kW or 2 hp to cruise at 5 mph, a common maximum river speed and that a 30 hp petrol or diesel engine producing only 2 hp is considerably more inefficient.

While Campbell refers to heavy batteries requiring a " load-bearing hull " and " cranky, even unseaworthy vessels ", Desmond points out that electric boaters tend to prefer efficient, low-wash hull forms that are more friendly to river banks.

While Varus was on his way from his summer camp somewhere west of the Weser river to the winter headquarters near the Rhine, he heard reports of a local rebellion, fabricated by Arminius.

While in the process of preparing the counterattack the Muslim forces, in 983 Otto II experienced a major uprising of the Slavs against his rule, forcing the Empire to abandon its major territorial holdings east of the Elbe river.

While passing through the Telangana region of Andhra Pradesh it touches a small village called Dharmapuri which is a pilgrimage village with many ancient Hindu temples and river Godavari serving as spiritual place in true sense for bathing in Godavari river spread over rocks and sand.

While the seaway diverted water traffic from nearby Buffalo and led to the demise of its steel and grain mills, other industries in the Niagara River valley flourished with the help of the electric power produced by the river.

While not the highest experienced along the river since European settlement, this flood was the most damaging.

While inland river and lake systems are relatively sparse, they nevertheless provide some unique fresh water game fish and crustacea suitable for dining.

While the Susquehanna River has a wide floodplain that has necessitated the construction of floodwalls to protect a large percentage of the city, the areas away from the river increase in elevation approaching Wilkes-Barre Mountain.

While traveling Jason lost his sandal crossing the muddy Anavros river while helping an old woman ( Hera in disguise ).

While chasing a bush pig, he was attracted to the river Ethiope where he was captured and taken to the bottom of the river by a band of spirits.

While Durvasa and his disciples were away at the banks of the river bathing, Draupadi prayed to Lord Krishna for help.

While traveling south with his troops, General Andrew Jackson camped at the fork of the river in 1813.

While Sacramento began to urbanize on the other side of the river, early West Sacramento found its hand at agricultural development.

" While this statistic refers to Kentucky and not Indiana, it is nonetheless indicative of a similar situation across the river in Indiana.

While no one lives along the river it is a popular destination for campers.

While the aging Prince Eugene of Savoy had recommended to the emperor a more warlike posture against potential actions by France in the Rhine valley and northern Italy, only minimal steps were taken to improve imperial defenses on the Rhine.

While situated in the valley of the Anduin River, the Hobbits lived close by the Éothéod, the ancestors of the Rohirrim, and this led to some contact between the two.

While the Saône valley, the Côtière, Bourg-en-Bresse und the Gex region have a high density of population, only 16 inhabitants / km² live in the mountainous canton Brénod.

While the nation had pushed to the western coast, the land the Fickert family settled in 1869 was still isolated and remote ... a rich, virtually hidden valley.

While pursuing the Indians, the Spaniards came upon a fertile valley in 1797 which was named Los Vallecitos de San Marcos ( Little Valleys of Saint Mark ) to honor the day of discovery: April 25, “ St.

While rail crews built east from Portland, others continued west up the Yellowstone valley.

While the British were encamped in the valley below awaiting an opportunity to attack, it is said that Washington drilled his troops on the Sourland Mountain around a spring near the top using different formations and corn stalks for guns.

While early homesteaders moved into the valley in the late 1800s, Seneca only began growing in the 1929 when it became the northern terminus of the now-vacated Oregon and Northwestern Railroad, owned by the Edward Hines Lumber Company, which extended south to Burns.

While the Red River drains the region, it did not create a valley wider than a few hundred feet, and the much-wider floodplain is the lakebed of the glacial lake.

While he thought that all three were possible, he suggested that the valley was too steep to allow a conventional canal with locks to be economic, and he therefore proposed a tub-boat canal, suitable for four-ton boats, which would use two inclined planes on the upper section, rather than locks.

While port is produced from grapes grown in the Douro valley, until 1986 it could only be exported from Portugal from Vila Nova de Gaia near Porto, Portugal's second-largest city.

While population numbers are unknown, camps were scattered throughout the valley.

While winters in the valley are generally mild, snow is not unusual in the higher elevations of Jackson County around Cashiers or Balsam.

While traveling to the park, Muir told the president about state mismanagement of the valley and rampant exploitation of the valley's resources.

While living there, he liked to go to the nearby valley of the Düssel river, nature being the inspiration for his poems.

While the Matterhorn is the culminating point of the Valtournenche on the south, it is only one of the many 4000 metres summits of the Mattertal valley on the north, among which the Weisshorn ( 4505 m ), Dom ( 4545 m ), Lyskamm ( 4527 m ) and the second highest in the Alps: Monte Rosa ( 4634 m ).

While there is little archaeological evidence in the Don valley itself, regional finds in the Great Lakes St. Lawrence area have revealed that permanent settlements started to occur about 6000 BP.

While returning from this very beneficial pilgrimage, Hiroo Dham Singh and his party passed through the Johar valley, east of Nanda Devi.

While one cannot picture a mountain without a valley, it's possible that these do not exist.

While the Trough of Bowland ( the valley and high pass connecting the Wyre ( at Marshaw ) and Langden Brook and dividing the upland core of Bowland into two main blocks ) represents the area, to many, on account of its popularity, it is in fact only a small part of the wider Forest of Bowland area.

While the valley was relatively isolated, the Zapotecs did have contacts with other Mesoamerican peoples.

While Royalists were encamped in Painswick, tradition has it that King Charles went up to the Beacon and, seeing the beautiful valley to the east said " This must be Paradise ".

While Hallstatt is regarded as the dominant settlement of the western zone, a settlement at the Burgstallkogel in the central Sulm valley ( southern Styria, west of Leibnitz, Austria ) was a major center during the Hallstatt C period.