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Crossing of the Rhine (disambiguation)

Last updated August 31, 2025

Crossing of the Rhine or Rhine crossing may refer to:

Crossing of the Rhine, 406 AD, by the Vandals, Alans and Suebi into the Roman Empire, east to west
By Gustavus Adolphus and the Swedes in 1631 who then captured Mainz, Oppenheim, Mannheim, and Germersheim as part of the Thirty Years War
By French troops invading the Dutch Republic and 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

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
At Nierstein, on 22 March by the Third United States Army
Operation Plunder and Operation Varsity, on 23–24 March
- The associated battle honour "Rhine Crossing" was issued to participating British units
At Boppard, on 25–26 March by the Third United States Army
At Worms, on 26 March by the Seventh United States Army

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