| In addition to revealing the lives of black schooner and lightermen, Cecelski discusses canal building, bateaux boating, rafting, levee work, and various kinds of fishing. |
| Starting at the Palais Rohan, where Napoleon dumped Josephine, long glass-roofed bateaux mouches, or river barges, follow a lazy route through the Ill canals. |
| At present, they are navigable about half their length for small steamboats and bateaux. |
| As night fell, the wind began to howl and snow and sleet battered the bateaux wherein Washington's amphibious force sat, prepared to fight. |
| In the Charles River, out of sight of Boston, were his two floating batteries and his bateaux filled with soldiers. |
| Early in the spring of 1554 a numerous and choice army descended the Volga in bateaux to the delta on which astrachan is built. |
