Sentence examples for successful river from inspiring English sources

But on 24 June 1796, Moreau launched a successful river crossing in the Battle of Kehl.

At the same time, the 1st and 2nd Regiments of the NK 9th Division, in their first offensive of the war, stood only a few miles short of Yongsan after a successful river crossing and penetration of the American line.

On the morning of September 1 the 1st and 2nd Regiments of the NK 9th Division, in their first offensive of the war, stood only a few miles short of Yongsan after a successful river crossing and penetration of the American line.

If successful, the river water diverted through the man-made channel would cut off the horseshoe bend of the river on which the city was located.

The attack was successful and the river was crossed over a pontoon bridge left intact by the retreating Germans.

One of the most successful diversions, near the river's mouth, is now in danger of being shut down because the shipping industry has complained that it is silting up a useful anchorage.

In the early 1990s the national government, with financial assistance from Japan, began implementing the Yamuna Action Plan, a multiphase project that has been partly successful at reducing the river's pollution levels.

Ms. Schwalb had to forgo the space heater for her chilled classroom because it shorted out the school's dated wiring, which still lags behind the high-tech education promises of the successful campaigners across the river.

Ewing instead made three successful raids across the river.

The company's president, Chauncey Thomas, attempted to hire John Augustus Robeling, a bridge expert, who was building a bridge in the Niagara region of New York and Canada (which came to be known as the Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge), which was to be built as an 821 feet two-deck span over the Niagara River, and who had completed successful spans over the rivers in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

The subsequent clean up-efforts have been expensive, roiled by wrangling between Pittsfield, GE and the federal Environmental Protection Agency, and only partially successful: up and down the river, water, mud and soil still test positive for toxins.But it seems a turnaround is in the works.