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The creek was unfordable, and the bridge had been destroyed.

If the battle turned against the French, they would be trapped with an unfordable river at their backs.

In effect, the abnormal no longer lay on the other side of an unfordable gorge.

The street was a roaring river, the intersection a swirling lake - both unfordable.

Any river, if unfordable, was crossed by a temporary bridge of boats, such as are still to be seen in the present day.

The raid had to be called off when sudden rains made the Medina unfordable.

In April the streams were swollen by snow-melt and rain which rendered them generally unfordable.

Thirty minutes later, Mark watched several enemy rounds land harmlessly short as the bridge over the clearly unfordable river collapsed into it.

The town was upon the banks of the great Saale River, broad and unfordable, which would serve well as a barrier to defend.

Craufurd committed a serious tactical error by choosing to fight with an unfordable river at his back while badly outnumbered.

Just keep riding toward some distant horizon behind which the Comanche and the Kansans and the unfordable rivers lay.

The battlefield's terrain is dominated by several villages and by the river Utrata, which during April is unfordable.

Lacking a bridge and unfordable, the Kennicott River is crossed by do-it-yourself, hand-pulled cable trams.

The army of Nidintu-Bêl held the Tigris; there it took its stand, and on account of the waters (the river) was unfordable.

Elsewhere the river was unfordable and uncrossable except by boat - even in winter, for Sirion never froze south of the Fen of Serech.

In 1846, after winter rain, these streets were unfordable rivers, and in summer reduced to powder and choked by clouds of fine dust, with no arrangements for sewage or refuse disposal.

A reference to the River Netravati, as unfordable during the South-West Monsoon, can be seen in the Gazetteer of Southern India,, published in 1855.

Cut by impassable canyons and unfordable rivers, gulches, and gullies, Brown's Park not only offered an ideal hideout to fugitives but also provided excellent winter and summer range for stolen stock.

The Mortan was unfordable for over ninety kilometers upstream or down from Erastor, and the terrain south of the river was so boggy not even nioharqs could drag artillery or wagons through it.

The former route would involve finding a way across an unfordable part of the Eastern Branch of the Potomac (now called the Anacostia River) if the Americans destroyed the bridge on the route.

The Mortan was the better part of three unfordable kilometers wide above and below Erastor, but itcould be forded at Malz, a farm town ninety-odd klicks below its junction with the Erastor River.

Early in 1864, the commander of the Army of the Cumberland, Major General George H. Thomas, was seeking a light-weight, easy-to-haul and erect pontoon bridge to move his troops across unfordable rivers and streams.

Both Crittenden and Albert Sidney Johnston ordered Zollicoffer to relocate south of the river, but he could not comply-he had insufficient boats to cross the unfordable river quickly and was afraid his brigade would be caught by the enemy halfway across.

My conductor, however, informed me, that to get through this deep and important stream, and to clear all its tributary dependencies, the general pass from the Highlands to the southward lay by what was called the Fords of Frew, at all times deep and difficult of passage, and often altogether unfordable.

As I knew we could not take the wagons beyond a certain point where there was a river called the Luba, unfordable by anything on wheels, I requested him, moreover, to send a hundred bearers with whatever escort might be necessary, to meet us on the banks of that river at a spot which was known to both of us.