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Sentence Examples About 11OO B.C. Nordics enter Italy as Umbrians and Oscans, and soon after cross the Rhine into Gaul. My unit is the first unit to build under fire since World War II over the Rhine River. Like the African examples, the Rhine rift is associated with volcanism and with a regional upwarp that forms raised borders to the rift. The next day she said the landscape as they cruised along the River Rhine was very picturesque with little villages nestling in the hills. Viticulture is most extensive in the Rhine and Mosel valleys in west Germany and is an important export industry. The Ligurians occupied a strip of coast stretching from the Arno to the Rhine. Literally in a backwater not far from The Hague, Delft reposes among the clefts made through the sleepy Dutch fields by the delta of the Rhine. The rear echelons of the army mutinied and seized the crossings over the Rhine. The Rhine bargemen attacked the steamships that were stealing their trade, and Rhineland peasants surged into the forests to cut wood. We had just recrossed the Rhine when our tail gunner shouted the alarm over the intercom. The intelligence officer reported that only light flak could be expected over the battlefront along the Rhine River. The gentler lower slopes, derived from the Rhine delta bed, have deeper topsoils, over subsoils of clay, marl, limestone, and sandstone. The vessel will be designed to operate using existing berthing and loading facilities on the Rhine and Danube. In 296, with Maximian guarding the Rhine, Constantius and his praetorian prefect, Asclepiodotus, took ship for Britain. I was too small to wrestle on equal terms with the brutish currents of the surging Rhine minutes after the collapse of the bridge at Remagen. The theatre has a similar bulk and presence in the opposite direction, as its south side presents long views across the Rhine harbour. In the opera's famous opening scene, deep in the waters of the Rhine river, Wagner unfolds an immense, rolling E-flat major chord. Das Rheingold tells the story of the stealing of the gold of the Rhine maidens by Alberich, king of the Nibelungs, and the forging and theft of the magic ring. When the annexation of Belgium was decreed on 1 October 1795 the mover of the proposal, Merlin de Douai, also recommended the annexation of the entire left bank of the Rhine. His Merovingian successors extended Frankish powers east of the Rhine. Show More Sentences The Allies would keep their military forces on the Rhine to enforce payment and have the right to reoccupy German territory in the event of default. He would certainly have taken a last look at the Rhine, expecting to see it again in six months or a year. In October 1792 the French Revolutionary Army invaded German territory and marched towards the Rhine. On the fourth night the group broke out and swam 400 yards across the Rhine. Alexander at one time had toyed with the idea of renouncing his rights to the succession and going with his wife to live an idyllic life on the banks of the Rhine. There were certain areas east of the Rhine and north of the Danube that had Roman colonies, but the territory never was Romanized in the thorough fashion that Britain was. Among the famous buildings were the largest theatre north of the Alps and a bridge across the Rhine. Additionally, in the south there were Celtic peoples still living east of the Rhine and north of the Alps. The largest city on the Rhine is Cologne, Germany, with a population of more than 1,050,000 people. Above this point is the extensive catchment of the headwaters of the Rhine. They also moved up the Rhine and created a domain in the region of the former Germania Superior with capital at Cologne. Traditionally, Lake Toma near the Oberalp Pass in the Gotthard region is seen as the source of the Anterior Rhine and the Rhine as a whole. The Port of Mainz, now handling mainly containers, is a sizable industrial area to the north of the city, along the banks of the Rhine. Worms is located on the west bank of the river Rhine between the cities of Ludwigshafen and Mainz. The climate in the Rhine Valley is very temperate in winter and quite enjoyable in summer. Fragments of amphoras contain traces of olive oil from Hispania Baetica, doubtless transported by sea and then up the Rhine by ship. The Posterior Rhine rises in the Rheinwald valley below Mount Rheinwaldhorn. The Anterior Rhine arises from numerous source streams in the upper Surselva and flows in an easterly direction. The Americans did not enter the city until the Rhine crossings began after the seizure of the Remagen Bridge. Near Sils the Posterior Rhine is joined by the Albula, from the east, from the Albula Pass region. Show More Sentences Even after the Dacian wars, the Danube frontier would permanently replace the Rhine as the main military axis of the Roman Empire. D 234, the barbarians crossed the Rhine and Danube in hordes that even caused panic at the gates of Rome. The guards were stationed in nearby castra and watchtowers usually built immediately on the Rhine. He conquered most or all of the neighbouring Frankish tribes along the Rhine and incorporated them into his kingdom. Numerous larger and smaller tributary rivers bear the name of the Rhine or equivalent in various Romansh idioms like Rein or Ragn. Next to Reichenau in Tamins the Anterior Rhine and the Posterior Rhine join and form the Alpine Rhine. Striking richness of vegetation which follows in the windings of the Rhine, marks its banks, islands, and aits. The army marched to the Baltic before turning around and marching to the Rhine, winning much booty with no harassment. The natural Rhine originally branched into at least two arms and formed small islands by precipitating sediments. It takes its name from the Burgundians, an East Germanic people who moved westwards beyond the Rhine during the late Roman period. The Dornbirner Ach had to be diverted, too, and it now flows parallel to the canalized Rhine into the lake. The upper Rhine and Danube appear to form a funnel pointing straight at Vesontio. Depending on the water level, this flow of the Rhine water is clearly visible along the entire length of the lake. He did not pursue the retreating remnants, leaving what was left of the German army and their dependents intact on the other side of the Rhine. Distance markers along the Rhine measure the distance from the bridge in the old city centre of Constance. Emperor Francis II dissolved the empire on 6 August 1806, after the creation of the Confederation of the Rhine by Napoleon. Napoleon reorganized much of the Empire into the Confederation of the Rhine, a French satellite. It fell above all on Northern Frankland, and soon the Scheldt, the Meuse, and the Rhine were full of pirate squadrons. The northern section of this frontier, where the Rhine is deep and broad, remained the Roman boundary until the empire fell. At the Rhine near Duisburg, it adjoins a smaller strip of other Low Franconian varieties called Bergisch. Show More Sentences The hippopotamus was distributed as far north as the rivers Rhine and Thames. The Eastern Franks were known as the Ripuarians and those west of the Rhine were known as the Salian Franks. Around 260 AD, the fall of the Agri Decumates territory north of the Rhine transformed today's Switzerland into a frontier land of the Empire. The High Rhine begins in Stein am Rhein at the western end of the Untersee. For some classical authors Germania also included regions of Sarmatia, as well as an area under Roman control on the west bank of the Rhine. Caesar, Tacitus and others noted differences of culture which could be found on the east of the Rhine. A pamphlet directed against Prince Rupert of the Rhine is a typical example. Prince Rupert of the Rhine returned to the service of England, became a member of the privy council, and was provided with an annuity. In 292 Constantius, the father of Constantine I defeated the Franks who had settled at the mouth of the Rhine. Through the scoured channel passed a river, which drained the combined Rhine and Thames westwards to the Atlantic. He further reorganised the French military forces, establishing a large reserve army positioned to support campaigns on the Rhine or in Italy. To ensure compliance, the Rhineland and bridgeheads east of the Rhine were to be occupied by Allied troops for fifteen years. This was a general assembly of the estates of the Holy Roman Empire that took place in Worms, a town on the Rhine. Nevertheless, the Alpine Rhine is considered the main branch, because it is longer. It consists of several large, industrial cities bordered by the rivers Ruhr to the south, Rhine to the west, and Lippe to the north. The urban landscape of the Ruhr extends from the Lower Rhine Basin east to the Westphalian Plain and south to the hills of the Rhenish Massif. The Ruhr River is only one of half a dozen rivers in the Ruhr district, in addition to the Rhine. In Mainz, the Rhine leaves the Upper Rhine Valley and flows through the Mainz Basin. The Rhine originates in a 30 square kilometre area in Switzerland and represents almost 60 percent of water exported from the country. This form of landscape can be seen in East Africa, the Vosges, the Basin and Range Province of Western North America and the Rhine valley. Show More Sentences Water Reest and Wieden, Groot Salland Water, Water Fight Streams and Rhine and IJssel. Morphological and geological studies on construction project bedload supply Upper Lower Rhine for the years 2014-2019 on the Rhine. This fortunate development is also a reflection of the metropolitan Rhine Ruhr area and its great potential for trade and tourism. The Upper Rhine was a significant cultural landscape in Central Europe already in antiquity and during the Middle Ages. In 1977 it was Newcastle Brown Ale, various tinned beers and lager, Babycham, Cinzano and Rhine wines. I foresee a rude awakening on the Rhine horizon and his wife nursemaiding him about like a dotard. Spatial and environmental effects on hydrophytic macrophyte occurrence in the Upper Rhine floodplain. Strasbourg is the seat of the European Parliament, and so one of the three European capitals is located on the Upper Rhine. The Upper Rhine region was changed significantly by a Rhine straightening program in the 19th Century. The Upper Rhine has undergone significant human change since the 19th century. Loops, oxbows, branches and islands were removed along the Upper Rhine so that there would be a present uniformity to the river. On 8 October 1806, Napoleon unleashed all the French forces east of the Rhine into Prussia. For example, his organization of the Confederation of the Rhine in 1806 promoted a feeling of nationalism. The remainder of imperial forces came mostly from the Confederation of the Rhine, especially Saxony and Bavaria. Engineering along the Rhine eased flooding and made transportation along the river less cumbersome. Most of Luxembourg and a very small part of Belgium also drain to the Rhine via the Moselle. Between Bingen am Rhein and Bonn, the Middle Rhine flows through the Rhine Gorge, a formation which was created by erosion. Roman expansion along the Rhine and Danube rivers resulted in the incorporation of many indigenous Celtic societies into the Roman Empire. The dominant economic sectors in the Middle Rhine area are viniculture and tourism. In February, the Soviets entered Silesia and Pomerania, while Western Allies entered western Germany and closed to the Rhine river. Show More Sentences In Bonn, where the Sieg flows into the Rhine, the Rhine enters the North German Plain and turns into the Lower Rhine. Like the Upper Rhine, the Lower Rhine used to meander until engineering created a solid river bed. Because the levees are some distance from the river, at high tide the Lower Rhine has more room for widening than the Upper Rhine. The name Rijn, from here on, is used only for smaller streams farther to the north, which together formed the main river Rhine in Roman times. Though they retained the name, these streams no longer carry water from the Rhine, but are used for draining the surrounding land and polders. Lands to the north and east of the Rhine emerge in the Roman records under the name Germania. Since the Rhine contributes most of the water, the shorter term Rhine Delta is commonly used. The offensive in the Rhine river valley area started on 7 September, four days after France declared war on Germany. The watershed of the Rhine reaches into the Alps today, but it did not start out that way. The Rhine and Danube provided the bulk of geographic separation for the Roman limes. By the Pliocene period, the Rhine had captured streams down to the Vosges Mountains, including the Mosel, the Main and the Neckar. In the Early Pleistocene, the Rhine followed a course to the northwest, through the present North Sea. From 1648 Charles Louis was able to take up his position as Elector of the Palatinate on the Rhine, as a consequence of the Peace of Westphalia. During interglacials, when sea level rose to approximately the present level, the Rhine built deltas, in what is now the Netherlands. In February 2005 Arriva purchased Sippel, a bus operator in the Rhine Main. Much of the discharge was routed to the Rhine and its downstream extension. In the west it reached as far as the Gooi region, in the south as far as the Lower Rhine. Only Lorrainian and Low Hessian, of all the Rhine Franconian area, remained unaffected by diphthongization. Prince Rupert of the Rhine, a prominent Royalist general, attempted to relieve Windsor Castle that November. The French armies drove the Austrians, British, and Dutch beyond the Rhine, occupying Belgium, the Rhineland, and the south of the Netherlands. Show More Sentences Since the Peace of Westphalia, the Upper Rhine formed a contentious border between France and Germany. French leaders, such as Louis XIV and Napoleon Bonaparte, tried with varying degrees of success to annex lands west of the Rhine. In World War II, it was recognised that the Rhine would present a formidable natural obstacle to the invasion of Germany, by the Western Allies. The bridges at Nijmegen, over the Waal distributary of the Rhine, were also an objective of Operation Market Garden. Seven Days to the River Rhine was a Warsaw Pact war plan for an invasion of Western Europe during the Cold War. During its course from the Alps to the North Sea, the Rhine passes through four countries and constitutes six different country borders. The classic example has been the Rhine Valley graben with the Vosges Mountains and the Schwarzwald as adjacent horsts. The Rhine, together with its tributaries the Aare and the Thur drain about two thirds of the water into the North Sea. The French prepared a great advance on three fronts, with Jourdan and Moreau on the Rhine, and Bonaparte in Italy. Western Roman rule was first violated with the Crossing of the Rhine and the following invasions of the Vandals and Suebi. Coal from the south was transported to the North Sea port, and imported iron ore was shipped via the canal towards Rhine and the Ruhr. The rivers Rhine, Meuse, and Scheldt give waterway access into the heart of Western Europe, including the highly industrialized Ruhr. In Germany, the armies of Hoche and Moreau crossed the Rhine again in April after the previous year's failure. Austria later signed the Treaty of Campo Formio, ceding the Austrian Netherlands to France and recognizing the French border at the Rhine. Of these, 108,000 troops were available for field operations while the other 29,000 watched the Swiss border and held the Rhine fortresses. Frankish incursions over the Rhine became so frequent that the Romans began to settle the Franks on their borders in order to control them. In 292 Constantius defeated the Franks who had settled at the mouth of the Rhine. In the middle Rhine region of the map, the word Francia is close to a misspelling of Bructeri. The Romans diverted the Rhine into the Yssel through a canal, which emptied into an inland lagoon. Along the Rhine itself were a number of cities constituting the interface between Roman and Germanic civilisation. Show More Sentences Germanics who settled south of the Rhine without Roman authority were punished. Rather, Moreau planned to cross the Rhine near Basel where the river swung to the north. A French column would distract Kray from Moreau's true intentions by crossing the Rhine from the west. The Tungri especially were thought to have links to Germanic tribes east of the Rhine. On 15 June, Army Group C launched Operation Tiger, a frontal assault across the Rhine and into France. Five assault divisions of the VII Armeekorps crossed the Rhine into the Colmar area with a view to advancing to the Vosges Mountains. During the night, 72 bombers attacked German marshalling yards forests and dropped mines in the Rhine river for a loss of two aircraft. During the night, 72 bombers attacked German marshalling yards, forests and dropped mines in the Rhine, for a loss of two aircraft. In AD 47 he took part in the Roman conquest of the Chauci and the construction of the canal between the rivers Maas and Rhine. The Allies occupied the Rhine cities of Cologne, Koblenz and Mainz, with restoration dependent on payment of reparations. The English word Germany derives from the Latin Germania, which came into use after Julius Caesar adopted it for the peoples east of the Rhine. Eileen Garrett was tested by Rhine at Duke University in 1933 with Zener cards. The other way he uses the term is to refer to any tribe considered to be of similar ancestry and traditions, with ancestry east of the Rhine. The east of the Rhine was not necessarily inhabited by Germanic speakers at this time. In Europe, the pipelines were extended as the troops moved forward, and eventually reached as far as the Rhine. Only in the lands beyond the Rhine did the Merovingians seek to extend political control over their neighbours. At its peak, these numbered 327 for the British Army of the Rhine in Germany alone. From the Carpathian Basin Bell Beaker spread down the Rhine and eastwards into what is now Germany and Poland. He describes their position as stretching out in a band from the Elbe, all the way to the northern Rhine, near the Sugambri. Caesar defeated Ariovistus in battle, forcing him to escape across the Rhine. Show More Sentences Napoleon reorganized much of the Empire into the Confederation of the Rhine. He must have meant the temporary military success of Drusus, as it is unlikely the Rhine was cleared of Germans. Talking of his own time, however, Procopius situates the Varni north and east of river Rhine, bordering the Franks. By this time the Rhine was on the western edge of the vast Corded Ware zone. The identification is certain, as it always is listed between the Rhine and the Weser, and was the only river leading to the Teutoburg Forest. He left a document to be read to the senate posthumously, expressly forbidding extension of the empire beyond the Rhine. The earliest mention of the Frisii tells of Drusus' 12 BC war against the Rhine Germans and the Chauci. The Late Copper Age is regarded as a continuous culture system connecting the Upper Rhine valley to the western edge of the Carpathian Basin. They are listed as a people of the islands in and near the Rhine River, as are the Frisii. The cultural concepts originally adopted from Beaker groups at the lower Rhine blended or integrated with local Late Neolithic Culture. Germania Inferior was a Roman province located on the west bank of the Rhine. Dio does not mention the border, but he views upper Germany as extending to the source of the Rhine. It is not clear if he was aware of the Upper Rhine in Switzerland, upstream from Lake Constance. Today we call the section of the Rhine running through upper Germania the middle Rhine. It extended from the Danube in the south to the Baltic Sea, and from the Rhine in the west to the Vistula. For those who first passed the Rhine and expulsed the Gauls, and are now named Tungrians, were then called Germani. Germania extended from the Rhine eastward to the Vistula river, and from the Danube river northward to the Baltic Sea. Some Germani, perhaps the original people to have been referred to by this name, had lived on the west side of the Rhine. During the period of the Roman empire, more tribes settled in areas of the empire near the Rhine, in territories controlled by the Roman Empire. The language of the Germani Cisrhenani and their neighbours across the Rhine is still unclear. Show More Sentences Under Emperors Vespasian and Domitian, the Roman Empire occupied the Agri Decumates between Main and Rhine. Alsace is located on France's eastern border and on the west bank of the upper Rhine adjacent to Germany and Switzerland. Alsace was united with the other Alemanni east of the Rhine into the stem duchy of Swabia. An additional natural disaster was the Rhine rift earthquake of 1356, one of Europe's worst which made ruins of Basel. An alternative explanation might be a sailing from the mouth of the Rhine to Richborough, which would be east to west. When the French Revolutionary Army of the Rhine was victorious, tens of thousands fled east before it. It is almost four times longer than it is wide, corresponding to a plain between the Rhine in the east and the Vosges mountains in the west. Alsace is the part of the plain of the Rhine located at the west of the Rhine, on its left bank. A related Alemannic German survives on the opposite bank of the Rhine, in Baden, and especially in Switzerland. It took control of the German areas on the left bank of the Rhine River and set up a puppet regime. The city would later be used as a springboard for Operation Veritable, the invasion across the Rhine River by Allied Troops. After World War I, Aachen was occupied by the Allies until 1930, along with the rest of German territory west of the Rhine. From a regional point of view, Niderlant was also the area between the Meuse and the lower Rhine in the late Middle Ages. Legio II Augusta, XX Valeria Victrix, and XIII Gemina were sent to the Rhine to replace the lost legions. Economically, the Rhine was already supporting towns and sizeable villages at the time of the Gallic conquest. Thus the Rhine was both significantly more accessible from Rome and better suited to supply sizeable garrisons than the regions beyond. Caesar relates that he crossed the Rhine again to punish the Suebi for sending reinforcements to the Treveri. They were forced by the confederation of the Saxons from the east to move over the Rhine into Roman territory in the fourth century. After the battle, the Germans quickly annihilated every trace of Roman presence east of the Rhine. The Netherlands is divided into north and south parts by the Rhine, the Waal, its main tributary branch, and the Meuse. Show More Sentences After this, the legion was probably part of the imperial army in the Rhine borderlands that was campaigning against the Germanic tribes. The Romans were to make no more concerted attempts to conquer and permanently hold Germania beyond the river Rhine and the Agri Decumates. Modern scholars have pointed out that the Rhine was a more practical boundary for the Roman Empire than any other river in Germania. Economically, the Rhine already had towns and sizable villages at the time of the Gallic conquest. The Rhine was significantly more accessible from Rome and better equipped to supply sizeable garrisons than the regions beyond. These losses had to be made up by reinforcements from the Germanic Rhine provinces. Germanic peoples who lived south and west of the Rhine and may have been distinct from the Belgae. No clear archaeological evidence has been found to confirm Caesar's account that the Eburones came specifically from over the Rhine. The Germani on the east side of the Rhine were considered to be living in their original homeland. Celtic naming even appears to have extended across the Rhine to such tribes as the Usipetes and Tencteri. Already during the Gallic Wars of Caesar, tribes of Germanic people were raiding over the Rhine, and many were eventually settled there. The other three tribes had been invaders on the upper Rhine, closer to modern Switzerland. So the two Roman provinces named Germania, both mainly on the west of the Rhine, gave an official form to the concept of Germani cisrhenani. He pursued them back over the Rhine where they were helped by the Sicambri. He therefore commanded one of the largest Roman armies, stationed along the important Rhine frontier. Constantine drove them back beyond the Rhine and captured two of their kings, Ascaric and Merogaisus. Caesar claimed that the Belgae generally had received immigration from Germanic people from east of the Rhine. During Caesar's lifetime, Germanic languages east of the Rhine may have been no closer than the river Elbe. According to Tacitus, the Nervians also served in cohorts based along the Rhine border. Celtic in language, according to Tacitus they claimed origin from the other side of the Rhine. Show More Sentences The Treveri suffered from their proximity to the Rhine frontier during the Crisis of the Third Century. According to the writer Florus, Ambiorix and his men succeeded in crossing the Rhine and disappeared without a trace. An example of temporary military bridge construction is the two Caesar's Rhine bridges. In the late 3rd century, the Burgundians appear on the east bank of the Rhine, confronting Roman Gaul. Some Burgundians migrated westwards and settled as foederati in the Roman province of Germania Secunda along the Middle Rhine. It is possible that at first the Chatti moved into place on the Rhine, in the old territory of the Ubii. The division was not chosen to be part of the British Army of the Rhine, the British occupation force to be based in the Rhineland. Of all these, the Belgae too, on the side of the Sequani and the Helvetii, upon the river Rhine, and stretches toward the north. Examples of a current propelled ferry are the four Rhine ferries in Basel, Switzerland. After the Upper Rhine valley had been eroded, most waters from the Alps changed their direction and began feeding the Rhine. By the 14th century, Dutch windmills were in use to drain areas of the Rhine delta. This is in fact also true of the possibly related tribes across the Rhine from them at this time. Constantine soon heard of the rebellion, abandoned his campaign against the Franks, and marched his army up the Rhine. Caesar does not say what the cause of the conflict was, but the Sequani controlled access to the Rhine river along the valley of the Doubs. In 411, Jovinus rebelled and took over Constantine's remaining troops on the Rhine. He immediately went on to a campaign against the Belgae, and the disposition of the lands on the Rhine is missing from his account. In the early Empire, the same Germanic tribes that had fought for Ariovistus appeared on both sides of the Rhine in Alsace. Tacitus knows that the Helvetians once settled in the swath between Rhine, Main, and the Hercynian forest. Parthia had always posed a threat to Rome in the east, but the real battlefront was along the Rhine and Danube rivers. Austrasia was centered on the Middle Rhine, including the basins of the Moselle and Main, and the Meuse rivers. Show More Sentences By a stroke of luck, a thaw prevented the Chatti from crossing the Rhine and coming to Saturninus' aid. Cologne is located on both sides of the Rhine, near Germany's borders with Belgium and the Netherlands. However, except for the provinces along the lower Rhine, the agricultural economy was generally doing well. A narrow deep channel along the middle of the strait was the bed of the Rhine in the last Ice Age. Cologne was occupied by the British Army of the Rhine until 1926, under the terms of the Armistice and the subsequent Versailles Peace Treaty. A geological deposit in East Anglia marks the old preglacial northward course of the Rhine. The city has five Rhine ports, the second largest inland port in Germany and one of the largest in Europe. Nearby Bonn is linked by both the Stadtbahn and main line railway trains, and occasional recreational boats on the Rhine. Mainz is located on the 50th latitude, on the west bank of the river Rhine, opposite the confluence of the Main with the Rhine. Mainz's history and economy are closely tied to its proximity to the Rhine historically handling much of the region's waterborne cargo. After the last ice age, sand dunes were deposited in the Rhine valley at what was to become the western edge of the city. Historical sources and archaeological findings both prove the importance of the military and civilian Mogontiacum as a port city on the Rhine. Afterwards, the Thames and Scheldt flowed through the gap into the English Channel, but the Meuse and Rhine still flowed northwards. Caesar describes the Suebi as pressing the German tribes of the Rhine, such as the Tencteri, Usipetes and Ubii, from the east, forcing them from their homes. By the 6th century, the Rhine was within the borders of Francia. The salinity has the highest variability where there is fresh water inflow, such as at the Rhine and Elbe estuaries, the Baltic Sea exit and along the coast of Norway. From Caesar's perspective, Germania was a geographical area of land on the east bank of the Rhine opposite Gaul, which Caesar left outside direct Roman control. Caesar used the term Germani for a very specific tribal grouping in northeastern Belgic Gaul, west of the Rhine, the largest part of whom were the Eburones. The Rhine Glacier is currently the subject of the most detailed studies. Gratian's armies were distracted by Germanic invasions across the Rhine. Show More Sentences The Germans living west of the Rhine River rose against him, perhaps encouraged by Roman loyalists, and those living east of the river crossed into Gaul. Charles's nephew Prince Rupert of the Rhine disagreed with the battle strategy of the royalist commander Lord Lindsey, and Charles sided with Rupert. They followed up by a campaign which swept the allies to the east bank of the Rhine and left the French, by the beginning of 1795, conquering the Dutch Republic itself. In July 1806, Napoleon formed the Confederation of the Rhine out of the many tiny German states which constituted the Rhineland and most other western parts of Germany. As well as the French Empire, Napoleon controlled the Swiss Confederation, the Confederation of the Rhine, the Duchy of Warsaw and the Kingdom of Italy. Facing a potential invasion from his continental enemies, he decided to strike first and turned his army's sights from the English Channel to the Rhine. By March, the Western Allies crossed the Rhine north and south of the Ruhr, encircling the German Army Group B, while the Soviets advanced to Vienna. Lothair took East Francia, comprising both banks of the Rhine and eastwards, leaving Charles West Francia with the empire to the west of the Rhineland and the Alps. Examples of this can be found in Rhone in France and Rhine in Germany. With the Netherlands falling, Prussia also decided to leave the coalition, signing the Peace of Basel on 6 April, ceding the west bank of the Rhine to France. The territory initially known as East Francia stretched from the Rhine in the west to the Elbe River in the east and from the North Sea to the Alps. The war was napoo, fini, and the Rhine the end of the journey. Liechtenstein is situated in the Upper Rhine valley of the European Alps and is bordered to the east by Austria and to the south and west by Switzerland. The entire western border of Liechtenstein is formed by the Rhine. Without the natural defensive barrier provided by the Rhine river, French generals argued that France needed a new defensive barrier made of concrete and steel to replace it. By 69, when the Batavians, the original inhabitants of the Rhine and Maas delta, revolted, a village called Oppidum Batavorum had formed near the Roman camp. Moreover, the troops tied up in Britannia were increasingly needed on the continent to defend the Rhine and Lower Danube from Germanic and Dacian attacks. The Seine, Thames, Meuse, Scheldt and Rhine rivers joined and flowed west along the English Channel as a wide slow river before eventually reaching the Atlantic Ocean. Lothar received the Imperial title, the Kingship of Italy, and the territory between the Rhine and Rhone Rivers, collectively called the Central Frankish Realm. The metropolitan area of France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean. Show More Sentences These tribes who had crossed the Rhine in early 407 and ravaged Gaul. The mouth of the Rhine into Lake Constance forms an inland delta. Like in the Obersee, the flow the Rhine can be traced in the Untersee. The Rhine emerges from Lake Constance, flows generally westward, as the Hochrhein, passes the Rhine Falls, and is joined by its major tributary, the Aare. Unlike the Alpine Rhine and Upper Rhine, it flows to the west. Some stretches of the High Rhine between Stein am Rhein and Eglisau form the border between Switzerland on the south bank and Germany in the north. Between Eglisau and Basel, the High Rhine consistently forms the border. Legally, the Central Bridge is the boundary between High and Upper Rhine. The engineering of the Rhine was not without protest, farmers and fishermen had grave concerns about valuable fishing areas and farmland being lost. Johann Tulla had the goal of shortening and straightening the Upper Rhine. Early engineering projects the Upper Rhine also had issues, with Tulla's project at one part of the river creating rapids, after the Rhine cut down from erosion to sheer rock. They join the Rhine near Koblenz, for the right and left respectively. Near Sankt Goarshausen, the Rhine flows around the famous rock Lorelei. During periods of lower sea levels within the various ice ages, the Rhine took a left turn, creating the Channel River, the course of which now lies below the English Channel. By the time of the Miocene, a river system had developed in the Upper Rhine Graben, that continued northward and is considered the first Rhine river. Through stream capture, the Rhine extended its watershed southward. Since then, during glacial times, the river mouth was located offshore of Brest, France and rivers, like the River Thames and the Seine, became tributaries to the Rhine. During this time, the lower Rhine flowed roughly west through the Netherlands and extended to the southwest, through the English Channel and finally, to the Atlantic Ocean. About 11000 years ago, the Rhine estuary was in the Strait of Dover. At this time, the plain of the Lower Rhine was the territory of the Ubii. Find more words! 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