The Battle Hostile_encounter of Remagen during the Allied invasion Attack of Germany resulted in Causation the unexpected capture Conquering of the Ludendorff Bridge over the Rhine and shortened Change_event_time World War II in Europe .

After capturing Conquering the Siegfried Line , the 9th Armored Division of the U.S. First Army had advanced Motion unexpectedly quickly towards the Rhine .

They were very surprised Change_sentiment to see Perception_active one of the last bridges across the Rhine still standing .

U.S. forces Military_operation captured Conquering the bridge and rapidly expanded Expansion their first bridgehead across the Rhine , two weeks before Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery 's meticulously planned Arranging Operation Plunder .

The GIs ' actions prevented Preventing_or_letting the Germans from regrouping Cause_to_amalgamate east of the Rhine and consolidating Cause_change_of_strength their positions Placing .

The sudden capture Conquering of a bridge across the Rhine was front-page news in American newspapers .

The unexpected availability of a bridgehead on the eastern side of the Rhine more than two weeks in advance of Operation Plunder allowed Preventing_or_letting Allied high commander Dwight Eisenhower to alter Change his plans to end Process_end the war .

The Allies were able to rapidly transport Bringing five divisions across the Rhine into the Ruhr , Germany 's industrial heartland .

But by then U.S. Army combat engineers had finished Process_end building Building a tactical steel treadway bridge and a heavy duty pontoon bridge followed by a Bailey bridge across the Rhine .

The Siege of Philippsburg was conducted Action by French forces against forces in the fortress of Philippsburg in the Rhine River valley during the War of the Polish Succession .

The Duke of Berwick led 100,000 men up the Rhine Valley in opposition to Austrian forces , of which 60,000 were detached to invest the fortress at Philippsburg , beginning Process_start on 1 June 1734 .

In preparation for the Allied invasion of Germany , a series of offensive operations were designed Create_artwork to seize and capture Conquering the east and west bank of the Rhine River : Operation Veritable and Operation Grenade in February 1945 , and Operation Lumberjack and Operation Undertone in March 1945 .

The Allied invasion of Germany started Process_start with the Western Allies crossing the Rhine River on 22 March 1945 before fanning out and overrunning all of western Germany from the Baltic in the north to the Alpine passes in the south , where they linked up with troops of the U.S. Fifth Army in Italy .

Additional losses in the Rhineland further weakened Cause_change_of_strength the German Army , leaving shattered remnants of units to defend the east bank of the Rhine .

On 7 March , the Allies seized Hold the last remaining intact bridge across the Rhine at Remagen , and had established Building a large bridgehead on the river 's east bank .

These rapid advances on the Eastern Front destroyed Destroying additional veteran German combat units and severely limited Limiting German Führer Adolf Hitler 's ability to reinforce his Rhine defenses .

One Prussian corps , reinforced Cause_change_of_strength by two more later in the day , encountered Hostile_encounter the entire French Army of the Rhine in a meeting engagement and , surprisingly , forced Motion the Army of the Rhine to retreat Escaping into the fortress of Metz .

One Prussian corps , reinforced Cause_change_of_strength by two more later in the day , encountered Hostile_encounter the entire French Army of the Rhine in a meeting engagement and , surprisingly , forced Motion the Army of the Rhine to retreat Escaping into the fortress of Metz .

9 , led by Rittmeister Oskar von Blumenthal , discovered Know that Marshal François Bazaine 's 160,000-man Army of the Rhine was attempting to escape Escaping from Metz to join with French forces at Verdun .

Alvensleben attacked Attack the French advance guard , believing that it was the rearguard of the retreating Escaping Army of the Rhine .

The successful conclusion Coming_to_believe of the war Hostile_encounter consolidated Cause_change_of_strength Wittelsbach authority in northwestern German territories and encouraged Influence a Catholic revival Recovering on the lower Rhine .

On the morning of the battle the Imperial advance Cause_to_make_progress guard discovered Know the advanced Cause_to_make_progress guard of the invading Attack Swiss army marching Motion_directional down the right bank of the Rhine , attacked Attack it , and caused Causation it to recoil Escaping toward Hard .

The combined forces Causation of the English Parliamentarians under Lord Fairfax and the Earl of Manchester and the Scottish Covenanters under the Earl of Leven defeated Conquering the Royalists commanded Control by Prince Rupert of the Rhine and the Marquess of Newcastle .

Ultimately , the French were driven Motion back upon the Rhine River .

Conquering Conquering Gaul allowed Preventing_or_letting Rome to secure the natural border of the river Rhine .

The Revolutionary Wars beginning Process_start in 1792 ultimately featured French victories that facilitated Cause_to_make_progress the conquest of the Italian Peninsula , the Low Countries and most territories west of the Rhine – achievements that had eluded Escaping previous French governments for centuries .

`` Veritable '' was a Northern pincer movement and started Process_start with XXX Corps advancing Cause_to_make_progress through the forest while the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division , in amphibious vehicles , cleared German positions in the flooded Motion Rhine plain .

Fighting Hostile_encounter continued as the Germans sought to retain Preserving a bridgehead on the west bank of the Rhine at Wesel and evacuate Escaping as many men and as much equipment as possible .

The fortifications at Kehl represented important bridgehead crossing Motion_directional the Rhine to Strasbourg , an Alsatian city , a French Revolutionary stronghold .

This battle Hostile_encounter was part of the Rhine Campaign of 1796 , in the French Revolutionary War of the First Coalition .

In the 1790s , the Rhine was wild , unpredictable , and difficult to cross Motion_directional , in some places more than four or more times wider than it is in the twenty-first century , even under non-flood conditions .

Critical to French success Achieve was the army 's ability to cross Motion_directional the Rhine at will .

By October , the Habsburg force , under the command Control of Archduke Charles , had pushed Self_motion the French back to the Rhine .

With the conclusion Statement of the Battle of Schliengen on 24 October , the French army withdrew Escaping south and west toward the Rhine .

The Archduke wanted to secure the Rhine crossings so he could send Sending troops to northern Italy to relieve Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser at besieged Mantua ; an armistice with Moreau would allow Preventing_or_letting him to do that .

These tied Connect his army to the Rhine for most of the winter .

Immediately after the Battle of Schliengen , while most of Moreau 's army retreated Escaping south to cross Motion_directional the Rhine at Hüningen , Count Baillet Latour moved Motion north to Kehl to begin Process_start the siege .

On 22 November , the French defenders at Kehl , under Louis Desaix and the overall commander of the French Army of the Rhine and Moselle , Jean-Victor-Marie Moreau , almost ended Process_end the siege when they executed a sortie that nearly captured Conquering the Austrian artillery park .

The operation was aimed Aiming against the Ruhr River , as a staging point for a subsequent thrust over the river to the Rhine into Germany .

Victory at Austerlitz also permitted Preventing_or_letting the creation of the Confederation of the Rhine , a collection of German states intended as a buffer zone between France and central Europe .

On 22 December , Hoche launched Military_operation a successful assault Attack with five divisions while Pichegru 's `` Army of the Rhine '' attacked Attack Wurmser from the south .

Caro 's division first surprised Change_sentiment the town of Vilafranca del Penedès in March and captured Conquering its 800-man garrison made up Come_together of troops from the Confederation of the Rhine .

It was an uprising Change_of_leadership against the Roman Empire started Process_start by the Batavi , a small but militarily powerful Germanic tribe that inhabited Batavia , on the delta of the river Rhine .

Louis XIV 's decision Deciding to cross the Rhine in September 1688 was designed Creating to extend his influence and pressure the Holy Roman Empire into accepting Receiving his territorial and dynastic claims .

In the Rhine Campaign of 1796 , Moreau 's army made a successful assault Attack crossing Motion_directional of the Rhine River at Kehl on 24 June .

In the Rhine Campaign of 1796 , Moreau 's army made a successful assault Attack crossing Motion_directional of the Rhine River at Kehl on 24 June .

The objective was to create Creating a salient into German territory with a bridgehead over the River Rhine , creating Creating an Allied invasion route into northern Germany .

It failed Earnings_and_losses , however , to secure a bridgehead over the Rhine , halting Process_end at the river .

Allied forces would project north from Belgium , through the Netherlands , across the Rhine and consolidate Cause_change_of_strength north of Arnhem on the Dutch/German border , ready GetReady to close Openness the pincer .

The operation required Imposing_obligation the seizure of the bridges by airborne troops across the Meuse River , two arms of the Rhine ( the Waal River and the Lower Rhine ) , together with crossings over several smaller canals and tributaries .