Crossing of the Rhine (disambiguation)

Crossing of the Rhine or Rhine crossing may refer to:

Military

• Crossing of the Rhine, 406 AD, by the Vandals, Alans and Suebi into the Roman Empire, east to west
• By French troops invading Germany during the 1672–1678 Franco-Dutch War:
  • 12 June 1672 in the Battle of Tolhuis
  • 1673, led by Turenne
• In 1744 by a force led by Charles Alexander of Lorraine, during the War of the Austrian Succession, from east to west, near Philippsburg
• Several times by French troops invading Germany during the French Revolutionary Wars:
  • For the first time in 1794, near Düsseldorf
  • On 6 September 1795
  • Rhine Campaign of 1796 § Crossing the Rhine, a French army crossed from west to east
  • On 18 April 1797 near Neuwied, leading to the Battle of Neuwied
  • Between 27 April and 2 May 1800, 100,000 men under Jean Victor Marie Moreau crossed to confront the Austrians at the Battle of Stockach
• From east to west by Prussian and Russian Troops invading France in 1814, near Kaub

World War II

The crossing from west to east by the western Allies in March 1945 during the Western Allied invasion of Germany.

• Battle of Remagen - on 7 March by the First United States Army
• Nierstein Rhine crossing - on 22 March by the Third United States Army
• Operation Plunder and Operation Varsity – on 23-24 March
  • The associated battle honour "Rhine Crossing" issued to British units participating
• Boppard Rhine crossing - on 25-26 March by the Third United States Army, at Boppard and Sankt Goar
• Worms Rhine crossing - on 26 March by the Seventh United States Army

Art

• Crossing of the Rhine by the army of Louis XIV 1672 painting by Joseph Parrocel
• The Passage of the Rhine, on the Porte Saint-Denis monument in Paris, sculpture by Michel Anguier
• Passage of the Rhine in 1795, painting by Louis-François, Baron Lejeune
• Wilhelm Camphausen's painting General von Blücher Crossing the Rhine

See also

• Rhine