Sentence examples for strategic river from inspiring English sources
For example, Fribourg (founded in 1157) and Bern (1191) were established at strategic river crossings.
A strategic river crossing, the site was probably visited in 1540 by Hernando de Alarcón (working with the Coronado expedition).
The city is a strategic river crossing and is connected by rail and road with Vienna, 80 miles (129 km) northwest, and Budapest, 72 miles southeast.
"The site was in use in the heyday of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of East Anglia, and positioned next to a strategic river cross.
The Romans later built roads throughout the region to link their fortifications, and they founded Leucarum, a military station at Loughor, a strategic river crossing on the western edge of Glamorgan.
In Spain, experimental floods were legally established in 2008 and were stipulated in two subsequent Basin Management Plans as compulsory practice for improving the functioning of strategic river reaches.
I knew the names of all the major towns and strategic rivers; I could have drawn you a map of the Ho Chi Minh Trail.
From the Mekong to the Mississippi, the rich soils and strategic positions of river mouths have long lured farmers, fishers and traders.
The strategy, which is being made available for a period of public comment before being submitted to the president, lays out several broad goals and specific means to achieve them To restore coastal habitat, for example, the report advises using strategic dredging and river diversions to rebuild the rapidly disappearing wetlands of the Mississippi Delta.
"The government needs to find some way to help us, because I can tell you, there will be more people like me on their way". Naya, a town of 8,000, became a target because of its vast coca fields and location along a strategic stretch of river used by guerrillas to transport guns from the Pacific Ocean.
Some of his resistance may have been strategic, as a river-based invasion of pro-Confederate Middle and West Tennessee was already under discussion and would prove more beneficial than a Pyrrhic assault into the mountains of East Tennessee.
