The forts once overcome, no other defence remained to be encountered until English Turn was reached, where earthworks had been thrown up on both banks.
The outlying defences on both banks of the river and on the lakes were abandoned by the Confederates without a struggle.
Anderson had been nearly a month away from Lee, and meanwhile Grant had not only kept Lee on the watch on both banks of the James, as well as for Richmond as for Petersburg, but had taken a fast hold on the Weldon railway.
In any case, however, it was now clearly impossible to abandon the fleet in its dangerous and helpless position above the rapids, with the river falling, and an active enemy on both banks.
Following up both banks of the Tigris, British cavalry came in contact with the enemy on the following day.
A fighting league with the great federation of Beni Lam was greatly to be desired by the British, for it would enable them to use freely a considerable stretch of the Tigris, and secure safety from attack from both banks.
Simultaneously with the occupation of Condino, an Italian force, based on Verona, moved up both banks of the Adige, crossed the Austrian frontier near Borghetto, and seized Ala with hardly any opposition.
Gros," early in the twelfth century, and that it enclosed the city's small suburbs on both banks of the mainland.
And the two great islands as we know them--the permanent outcome of all these topographical transformations--have been chained to each other and to both banks, by numerous beautiful bridges.
At first, until I had time to revise administrative boundaries, several districts included land on both banks.
They were not of importance, except that one of them, Hsenyawt, contained the chief ferry over the Salween and included land on both banks of the river.
Minbu on both sides of the river (it extended to both banks at this time) was very disturbed.
Indeed, although the Tartar outposts must have been drawn up on both banks, the raft had a good chance of passing unperceived.
Some of Feofar-Khan's scouts had already appeared on both banks of the lower Ichim, in the southern parts of the government of Tobolsk.
There was a thick growth of vegetation--a belt some hundred yards wide--on both banks of the river.
We there saw chapada on both banks as we went along, with merely a thin edge of trees along the river.
The forest was fairly thick all along on both banks, with innumerable healthy rubber trees.
Budapest is situated on both banks of the Danube, and is formed of the former towns of Buda (Ger.
The possession of the Janiculum and of both banks of the mouth of the Tiber remained, so far as we can see, undisputed in the hands of the Romans.
On the other hand they maintained apparently undisputed possession of the Janiculum and of both banks of the mouth of the Tiber.
While in a landward direction the Roman canton was thus everywhere confined within the narrowest possible limits, from the earliest times, on the other hand, it extended without hindrance on both banksof the Tiber towards the sea.
Both banks of the river were unpeopled and abandoned, but no one could impart any reason for this wholesale devastation.
Foragers returned after a visit into the interior, on both banks, with four goats and a few bananas, numbers of roast rats, cooked beetles, and slugs.
There are several settlements inland on both banks.
It is situated on both banks of the Heraz, or Herhaz river, which is crossed here by a very narrow stone bridge of twelve arches and flows into the Caspian Sea 12 m.
The modern city stands on both banks of the Kuwaik, and the older portions are contained within a Saracenic wall, 3 1/2 m.
Both banks higher up the Nile were almost deserted, the boats had disappeared, the well-sweeps were moving as if nothing had happened.
On both banks of the river, on a background of green fields, extended an unbroken series of huts of the people, groves of fig trees, groups of palms.
A moment later the side walls of the tent rose, and all the people on both banks of the Nile saw their ruler on a throne, and on the high step of it Rameses kneeling, with his head on the breast of his father.
The sun went down, and on both banks of the Nile dense crowds of people collected waiting impatiently for the signal of the overflow, which in fact was belated.
The Germans, caught on the flank by the French artillery on the left bank of the Meuse attacked all at once, then alternately on both banks.
From that time they operated simultaneously or successively on both banks.
Of these fifty-six and a half divisions, six divisions appeared successively on both banks of the Meuse, eight others being also engaged twice and six three times.
The enemy intended to combine operations on both banks.
On the Marne, French troops, moving eastwards under enemy artillery and machine-gun fire, enlarged their bridgehead on both banks.
While their principal efforts were directed westwards, south of the Aisne they reached Missy-aux-Bois, and lower down heavy fighting took place in the afternoon onboth banks of the Ourcq.
Throughout the whole of the region covered since leaving Jaulgonne the Americans fought with great bravery on both banks of the Marne.
We have formerly described how far the Romans had subjugated the Germans on both banks of the Rhine.
And not much later the poet of Bordeaux, in his pleasing description of the Moselle, depicts the vineyards as bordering that river on both banks, "just as my own vines wreathe for me the yellow Garonne.
It lies on a sandy plain on both banks of the Weser, 46 m.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "both banks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
