He encouraged the building of strategic bridges.

The Russian military says it has captured a strategic bridge, a hospital, a cannery and a military compound.

Continuing fire support operations, Laub destroyed four tanks and damaged strategic bridges.

It is believed that a fortress protected a strategic bridge across the river at Dezful, whence the name, although no trace of this castle remains.

Further in the east, squadron "Fagernäs" could not keep a strategic bridge under Finnish control.

By midnight, the bridge near the hospital and a second strategic bridge, just to the south, were secured.

The objective was to seize the town of Heiderscheid, a strategic bridge crossing along the Sure River.

General Jones assigned the cadets to protect the strategic bridge that crosses the Tulifinny.

A week earlier, a Reuters correspondent visited Falluja and wrote about a strategic bridge.

These included oil refinery and strategic bridges over the River Euphrates.