Following the Soviet advance Cause_to_make_progress to the Dnieper in the Battle of the Dnieper during late 1943 , German forces managed Control to hold to the Nikopol bridgehead on the left bank of the Dnieper , the area of manganese ore mines of crucial importance to German war production that Adolf Hitler insisted on holding Defending .

In November and December , the 3rd and 4th Ukrainian Fronts conducted Action multiple unsuccessful attacks against the bridgehead , a salient centered Placing around the supply Supply base and rail junction of Apostolovo , and German troops in the Krivoi Rog area .

Nikopol fell Motion_directional on 8 February , but despite heavy losses Earnings_and_losses the troops in the bridgehead , including the German IV Army Corps , were able to retreat Escaping across the Dnieper .

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 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 .

over 25,000 troops crossed Motion_directional into germany before the americans broke out Process_start of the bridgehead on 25 march 1945 .

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 .

including a triumvirate of battles launched after the italians ' successful seizure of gorizia in august 1916 to extend Change_event_time their bridgehead to the left of the town , it ended Process_end in further failure for the italian chief of staff luigi cadorna .

The offensive established Creating a short-lived bridgehead , evacuated Removing in panic two days after the operation commenced Process_start , under tank and mortar fire from the Yugoslav People 's Army ( JNA ) deployed Arranging north of Glina .

I Corps began Process_start the eastern thrust two days later from the Orne bridgehead , which had been secured in Operation Tonga on D-Day .

The Turks never succeeded in capturing Conquering the bridgehead ; instead the ANZACs evacuated Escaping the position at the end Process_end of the year .

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 .

To the north of Narva , the fresh SS 45th and 46th ( 1st and 2nd Estonian ) Volunteer Grenadier Regiments accompanied by units of the 11th SS Volunteer Panzergrenadier Division `` Nordland '' counter-attacked Attack and reduced Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale the Soviet bridgehead .

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

The swimmers eventually got Getting lines across the fast-flowing river while under fire from Ottoman forces on the east bank , and pontoon bridges were quickly constructed Building so that infantry and New Zealand mounted Connect troops could cross Motion_directional the river to attack Ottoman defenders on the east bank where a bridgehead was eventually established Building .

Operation Military_operation Hush was a British plan Arranging to make amphibious landings on the Belgian coast in 1917 during World War I , supported Supporting by an attack from Nieuwpoort and the Yser bridgehead , which were a legacy of the Battle of the Yser ( 1914 ) .

The Germans used Using mustard gas for the first time , supported Supporting by a mass of heavy artillery and captured Conquering part of the bridgehead over the Yser and annihilated two British battalions .

However , the rebels ' established Building strategic bridgehead consisting of the town of Kessab and nearby territory remained Presence .

The bridge was not finally secured Getting until three days after the start Process_start of the operation , when another battalion of the Durham Light Infantry , led by the paratroopers , established Building a bridgehead on the north bank of the river .

Moreau expanded Expansion his bridgehead , sending Sending Desaix north , Laurent Gouvion Saint-Cyr east and Pierre Marie Barthélemy Ferino south .

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 .

From about half of the German bridgehead south of Abbeville was recaptured Conquering by Franco-British troops ; the Allies were reinforced Cause_change_of_strength by infantry divisions and the `` 4e '' Division `` cuirassée '' ( 4e DCr , Colonel Charles De Gaulle ) but lost Earnings_and_losses many of their tanks and the Germans much of their infantry , some units running Self_motion back over the river Somme .

In the second phase of the offensive , the VRS reached Arriving the Sava River , the border with Croatia , and destroyed Destroying a bridgehead held Defending by the HV and the HVO at Bosanski Brod .

The Second Battle of Kehl occurred Coming_to_be on 18 September 1796 , when General Franz Petrasch 's Austrian and Imperial troops stormed Attack the French-held bridgehead over the Rhine river .