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William went bankrupt in 1848, although the Bell Works remained in the family. [11] William's son, Edward John (1814–96) was also very active, [12] and his two sons took the businesses into the 20th century. Edward John's sister Emma married a Francis Morley (d. 1883) who was one of a number of other names of partners appearing in business ...
Iblul-Il (died c. 2380 BC) [2] was the most energetic king of the second Mariote kingdom, noted for his extensive campaigns in the middle Euphrates valley against the Eblaites, and in the upper Tigris region against various opponents, which asserted the Mariote supremacy in the Syrian north.
William Ridgway Lawrence was born on January 14, 1840, to John and Eliza Lawrence in Bloomington, Indiana. The family soon moved to Illinois. The family soon moved to Illinois. Lawrence joined the Union Army during the American Civil War , serving as a lieutenant in the 73rd Illinois Infantry Regiment .
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Qal'at Ja'bar (Arabic: قلعة جعبر, Turkish: Caber Kalesi) is a castle on the left bank of Lake Assad in Raqqa Governorate, Syria.Its site, formerly a prominent hill-top overlooking the Euphrates Valley, is now an island in Lake Assad that can only be reached by an artificial causeway.
The Battle of Rumaila, also known as the Battle of the Causeway or the Battle of the Junkyard, was a controversial attack that took place on March 2, 1991, two days after President Bush declared a ceasefire, near the Rumaila oil field in the Euphrates Valley of southern Iraq, when the U.S. Army forces, mostly the 24th Infantry Division under Major General Barry McCaffrey engaged and nearly ...
In August 1990, the 505th was airlifted to Saudi Arabia as a part of Operation Desert Shield The ground phase of operation Desert Storm began 25 February 1991 and saw the brigade move north to conduct combat operations through the Euphrates River Valley. After eight months, the brigade had helped secure U.S. objectives and redeployed to Fort ...
By the end of 633, the Muslims were the masters of the Euphrates valley. In this valley, Firaz at the outermost edge of the Persian Empire still had a Persian garrison. Khalid decided to drive away the Persians from this outpost as well fearing that the Persians would execute a well planned re-invasion of lost territory.