Battle of the Marne Belleau Wood Chateau-Thierry Marne River | a World War I battle in northwestern France where the Allies defeated the Germans in |
Granicus Battle of Granicus River | the battle in which Alexander won his first major victory against the Persians ( BC) |
Metaurus River | a battle during the second Punic War ( BC), Hannibal's brother Hasdrubal was defeated by the Romans which ended Hannibal's hopes for success in Italy |
Meuse Meuse River Argonne Argonne Forest Meuse-Argonne Meuse-Argonne operation | an American operation in World War I (), American troops under Pershing drove back the German armies which were saved only by the armistice on November |
Somme Somme River Battle of the Somme | battle in World War I () |
Somme Somme River Battle of the Somme | battle of World War II () |
Yalu River | a battle in the Korean War (November ), when UN troops advanced north to the Yalu River , Chinese troops crossed the river and drove them back |
cooter river cooter Pseudemys concinna | large river turtle of the southern United States and northern Mexico |
river limpet freshwater limpet Ancylus fluviatilis | minute conical gastropod superficially resembling a limpet but living and feeding on freshwater plants |
longlawed prawn river prawn Palaemon australis | large (a foot or more) edible freshwater prawn common in Australian rivers |
river dolphin | any of several long-snouted usually freshwater dolphins of South America and southern Asia |
hippopotamus hippo river horse Hippopotamus amphibius | massive thick-skinned herbivorous animal living in or around rivers of tropical Africa |
river otter Lutra canadensis | sociable aquatic animal widely distributed along streams and lake borders in North America |
river shad Alosa chrysocloris | shad that spawns in streams of the Mississippi drainage, very similar to Alosa sapidissima |
Australian arowana Dawson River salmon saratoga spotted barramundi spotted bonytongue Scleropages leichardti | a species of large fish found in Australian rivers |
New River Gorge Bridge | a steel arch bridge across New River at Fayetteville, West Virginia |
river boat | a boat used on rivers or to ply a river |
anchovy pear river pear | West Indian fruit resembling the mango, often pickled |
river prawn | large Australian prawn |
Hudson River school romantic realism | the first coherent school of American art, active from to , painted wilderness landscapes of the Hudson River valley and surrounding New England |
river basin basin watershed drainage basin catchment area catchment basin drainage area | the entire geographical area drained by a river and its tributaries, an area characterized by all runoff being conveyed to the same outlet, flood control in the Missouri basin |
East River | a tidal strait separating Manhattan and the Bronx from Queens and Brooklyn |
Harlem River | a channel separating Manhattan from the Bronx |
Aare Aar Aare River | a river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine |
Acheron River Acheron | (Greek mythology) a river in Hades across which the souls of the dead were carried by Charon |
Adige River Adige | a river in northern Italy that flows southeast into the Adriatic Sea, Verona is on the Adige |
Aire River Aire Aire River | a river in northern England that flows southeast through West Yorkshire |
Alabama Alabama River | a river in Alabama formed by the confluence of the Coosa and Tallapoosa Rivers near Montgomery, flows southwestward to become a tributary of the Mobile River |
Allegheny Allegheny River | a river that rises in Pennsylvania and flows north into New York and then back south through Pennsylvania again to join the Monongahela River at Pittsburgh which is the beginning of the Ohio River |
Amazon Amazon River | a major South American river, arises in the Andes and flows eastward into the South Atlantic, the world's nd longest river ( miles) |
Amur Amur River Heilong Jiang Heilong | an Asian river between China and Russia, flows into the Sea of Okhotsk |
Angara Angara River Tunguska Upper Tunguska | a river in southeastern Siberia that flows northwest from Lake Baikal to become a tributary of the Yenisei River |
Apalachicola Apalachicola River | a river in northwestern Florida formed by the confluence of the Chattahoochee River and the Flint River at the Florida border |
Araguaia Araguaia River Araguaya Araguaya River | a river in central Brazil that flows generally northward (with many falls) to join the Tocantins River |
Argun Argun River Ergun He | a river in eastern Asia that arises in China and flows northeast along the border between China and Russia to become a tributary of the Amur River |
Arkansas Arkansas River | a river that rises in the Rocky Mountains in Colorado and flows southeast through Kansas and Oklahoma and through Arkansas to become a tributary of the Mississippi River |
Arno Arno River River Arno | a river in central Italy rising in the Apennines and flowing through Florence and Pisa to the Ligurian Sea |
Avon River Avon Upper Avon Upper Avon River | a river in central England that flows through Stratford-on-Avon and empties into the Severn |
Avon River Avon | a river in southwestern England rising in Gloucestershire and flowing through Bristol to empty into the estuary of the Severn |
Bighorn Bighorn River | a river that flows from central Wyoming to the Yellowstone River in southern Montana |
Big Sioux River | a river that rises in northeastern South Dakota and flows southward to join the Missouri River at Sioux City, Iowa |
Brahmaputra Brahmaputra River | an Asian river, flows into the Bay of Bengal |
Brazos Brazos River | a river that rises in Mexico and flows across Texas into the Gulf of Mexico |
Caloosahatchee Caloosahatchee River | a river in southern Florida that flows westerly to the Gulf of Mexico, forms the western end of the Cross-Florida Waterway |
Cam River Cam Cam River | a river in east central England that flows past Cambridge to join the Ouse River |
Canadian Canadian River | a river rising in northeastern New Mexico and flowing eastward across the Texas panhandle to become a tributary of the Arkansas River in Oklahoma |
Cape Fear River | a river in North Carolina that flows southeast to the Atlantic Ocean at Cape Fear |
Charles Charles River | a river in eastern Massachusetts that empties into Boston Harbor and that separates Cambridge from Boston |
Chattahoochee Chattahoochee River | a river rising in northern Georgia and flowing southwest and south to join the Flint River at the Florida border where they form the Apalachicola River |
Cimarron Cimarron River | a river that rises in northeastern New Mexico and flows eastward into Oklahoma where it becomes a tributary of the Arkansas River |