- English), **** (British English; see
spelling differences), embankment,
floodbank, or stop bank is an
elevated ridge,
natural or artificial,
alongside the...
- Italy, when a
small party were
almost wiped out in an ****ault on the east
floodbank of the river,
Sepoy Namdeo Jadhav carried two
wounded men
under heavy...
- Nottinghamshire. In 1795
during the
largest known flood on the Trent, the
floodbank which is
situated between Spalford and the
river was breached. Floodwaters...
- in the past that it was one of the
first rivers in ****an to
receive a
floodbank during the Edo era. The
magistrate in
Yamada (modern Ise)
during the Tokugawa...
-
which the bore can be seen, or
viewers can walk
along the
river bank or
floodbanks. Historically, the bore has been of
importance to
shipping visiting the...
-
These lower reaches are
protected from
tidal flooding by a
series of
floodbanks and defences.
Elsewhere there is a
distinct contrast between the open...
- Waterways. For much of its
route it runs
along the top of the
northern floodbank, but
drops down to a new
crossing of the A57 road and a new
bridge across...
- Byp****
filled with
nearly annual floods,
floodbanks to
avoid a
flood plain in the village...
- Shawar,
desperately attempted to fend off the
invaders by
opening the
floodbanks on the Nile, but
ended up
agreeing to pay an even
larger tribute and surrendered...
-
villages and 2,000
properties in Gainsborough.
River levels dropped when the
floodbank at
Morton breached,
resulting in the
flooding of some 77
square miles...
