The beaches of Bideford Bay (Woolacombe, Saunton, Westward Ho!

Mongol armies expanded westward under the command of Batu Khan.

Alfred at once hurried westward and raised the Siege of Exeter.

They were divided into several groups, some of whom fled westward.

From Richmond, Virginia Dickens returned to Washington, D.C. and started a trek westward to St. Louis.

The Mongol invasion of Europe beginning in the first half of the thirteenth century triggered another westward migration.

Later that year, the Royal Proclamation of 1763 placed a limit upon the westward expansion of the American colonies.

Taylor was born to a prominent family of planters who migrated westward from Virginia to Kentucky in his youth.

By 26 September they had battled their way down to the edge of a fjord that ran westward towards Godthaab.

By 1953 the JAL network extended northward from Tokyo to Sapporo and Misawa, and westward to Nagoya, Osaka, Iwakuni and Fukuoka.

While the US is pivoting to the East, leaving old allies like Saudi Arabia and Egypt deeply resentful, China is pivoting westward.

In 110 BC, at the age of thirty five, Sima Qian was sent westward on a military expedition against some barbarian tribes.

After turning westward, Andrew entered a stage of rapid intensification, strengthening into a Category 5 hurricane near the Bahamas on August 23.

The famous Manila galleons carried silver from Mexican mines westward to the entrepôt of Manila in the Spanish possession of the Philippines.

The city centre is located close to the river mouth, on both sides of the river, though development has recently been expanding westward.

The Neman flows westward towards the Baltic sea and the Pripyat flows eastward to the Dnieper the Dnieper flows southward towards the Black Sea.

Westward expansion integrated the Creoles and Cajuns of Louisiana and the Hispanos of the Southwest and brought close contact with the culture of Mexico.

Located 630 statute miles (1010 km) east southeast of Florianópolis, it headed slowly westward, and appeared to become a tropical storm on March 25.

Later that year, the 18th Army became part of the 1st Ukrainian Front, as the Red Army regained the initiative and advanced westward through Ukraine.

Meanwhile, three rebel columns, under the command of Che Guevara, Camilo Cienfuegos and Jaime Vega, proceeded westward toward Santa Clara, the capital of Villa Clara Province.

He was well positioned to take advantage of postwar prosperity and the great expansion westward fostered by the growth of railroads and an oil fueled economy.

Medieval Egypt In the 11th century, large numbers of pastoralists, known as Hilalians, fled Upper Egypt and moved westward into Libya and as far as Tunis.

80, 83, 99 and 830, runs westward from near Hickam Air Force Base to Aiea and beyond, eventually running through the center of the island and ending in Kaneohe.

It was located on the Bay of Andúnië, not far to the westward of Andúnië itself Christopher Tolkien has also expressed his uncertainty about the spelling of the name.

Yahweh said to Abram, after Lot was separated from him, Now, lift up your eyes, and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward,

The Cordillera Central and Cordillera Septentrional are separated by the lowlands of the Cibao Valley and the Atlantic coastal plains, which extend westward into Haiti as the Plaine du Nord (Northern Plain).

Brünnlitz As the Red Army drew nearer in July 1944, the SS began closing down the easternmost concentration camps and evacuating the remaining prisoners westward to Auschwitz and Gross Rosen concentration camp.

They intermarried with the local population and used the territory granted them as a base to extend the frontiers of the duchy westward, annexing territory including the Bessin, the Cotentin Peninsula and Avranches.

The fleet crossed the Equator on 9 April, and sailed westward as far as possible from the African continent in what was known as the volta do mar (literally turn of the sea ) navigational technique.

Through the defections of some princes, border skirmishes, and a long, inconclusive war with Lithuania that ended only in 1503, Ivan III was able to push westward, and Moscow state tripled in size under his rule.

The Victoria , commanded by Elcano along with 17 other European survivors of the 240 man expedition and 4 (survivors out of 13) Timorese Asians continued its westward voyage to Spain crossing the Indian and Atlantic Ocean.

In celestial navigation, the convention is to measure in degrees westward from the prime meridian (Greenwich hour angle, GHA), the local meridian (local hour angle, LHA) or the first point of Aries (sidereal hour angle, SHA).

India In 499 CE, the Indian astronomer Aryabhata propounded a planetary model that explicitly incorporated Earth's rotation about its axis, which he explains as the cause of what appears to be an apparent westward motion of the stars.

In flood time, it is said to have a second connection with the Rio Negro by a branch, which it throws off to the westward, called the Itinivini, which leaves it at a point about above its mouth.

Emigration westward in the early 1950s After the Soviet occupation of Eastern Europe at the end of World War II, the majority of those living in the newly acquired areas of the Eastern Bloc aspired to independence and wanted the Soviets to leave.

They are mostly liana forming plants of the Old World tropics, ranging from South China, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines westward to Madagascar (two species) and the Seychelles (one) southward to Australia (three) and New Caledonia (one) and northward to India (one) and Sri Lanka (one).

In the aftermath of the Molotov Ribbentrop Pact, with the westward expansion of the USSR in 1939 and 1940 into Poland, the Baltic, and Bessarabia, the decision was made to abandon the line in favour of constructing the Molotov Line further west, along the new border of the USSR.