He forced a crossing of the Weser near modern Minden, suffering some losses to a Germanic skirmishing force, and forced Arminius ' army to stand in open battle at Idistaviso in the Battle of the Weser River.

Having forced a crossing of the River Mersey at Stockport, he stormed Bolton, allegedly killing 1, 600 of the Parliamentarian defenders and citizens.

He was killed in battle late in 406, shortly before his people forced a crossing of the Rhine River into the territory of the Roman Empire.

After a forced march, the Allies crossed the river Schelde at Oudenaarde just as the French army, under Marshal Vendôme and the duc de Burgundy, was crossing farther north with the intent of besieging the place.

After marching his army to the west and making a dangerous crossing of frozen straits in the winter of 1657 / 58, he surprised the unprepared Frederick III on the Danish isles and forced him into surrender.

Due to bad weather crossing Bass Strait, they were forced to turn back.

The Persians forced a crossing of the ditch, pushing back the Roman cavalry.

* Suren Petrosyan ( 1916-)-the commander of the 3rd battalion of the 5th guards landing brigade, participated in the forced crossing of the River Dnepr.

The Angevin army advanced from Oswestry into Wales crossing the mountains towards Mur Castell, and found itself in the thick forest of the Ceiriog Valley where they were forced into a narrow thin line.

On their way home, Johansen and Nansen were forced to spend the winter on Franz Josef Land because of severe damage to their kayaks when crossing open channels in the ice.

Not long after, Becker was hit by a Manhattan taxi while crossing the street and forced to walk with crutches.

* May 18 – Harry Hawker and Lieutenant Commander Kenneth Mackenzie-Grieve attempt a non-stop Atlantic crossing but are forced to ditch their aircraft only after leaving Newfoundland.

On 27 March the Earl of Warwick ( leading the vanguard ) forced a crossing at Ferrybridge, bridging the gaps ( the Lancastrians having previously destroyed it ) with planks.

Most of the town's residents had been forced to move away by the closure of the tourist crossing and destruction of the town's traditional economy.

Wearing a Confederate outfit, Jeremy, a young boy is also forced to make the crossing.

By the end of September the regiment was in Belgium and forced a crossing of the Albert Canal, northeast of Antwerp.

In the Battle of Aspern-Essling ( 21 – 22 May 1809 ), Napoleon attempted a forced crossing of the Danube near Vienna, but the French and their allies were driven back by the Austrians under Archduke Charles.

On the night of 23 and 24 December, Davout's corps forced a crossing of the lower Wkra in the Battle of Czarnowo.

In the Duchy of Warsaw, Poniatowski defeated the Austrians at Raszyn on 19 April, prevented Austrian forces from crossing the Vistula river, invaded Austria and forced the Austrians to retreat from occupied Warsaw ( see Polish-Austrian War ).

German forces were able to engage and defeat Soviet armor, as the former forced the crossing of the Alksay River.

Polish forces were forced to abandon most of their heavy equipment while crossing the river.

The crossing was made some northwest of Addis Ababa, the capital Emperor Selassie had been forced to flee when the Italian General Pietro Badoglio captured the city from the Ethiopians on 5 May 1936 during the Second Italo-Abyssinian War.

During the crossing of the Vistula near Kieżmark, in the vicinity of Danzig ( Gdańsk ), Gustav met the Polish forces and in the ensuing battle was wounded in the hip and forced to retreat.

During the fighting, Eric was forced to swim over the Weser river in order to save his own life.

Often, threading through the overcast, he was forced to fly close to the ground by a low ceiling, skimming above the Winooski or the White River along the line of the broken railroad.

By the River Styx, he sees the souls of those not given a proper burial, forced to wait by the river until someone buries them.

A polarizing figure who dominated the Second Party System in the 1820s and 1830s, as president he dismantled the Second Bank of the United States and initiated ethnic cleansing and forced relocation of Native American tribes from the Southeast to west of the Mississippi River.

Subsequently, Washington was forced to retreat across the East River at night.

It is navigable for a period of about five months of the year, when the Purus valley is inundated ; and, for the remaining seven months, only canoes can ascend it sufficiently high to communicate overland with the settlements in the great India-rubber districts of the Mayutata and lower Beni ; thus these regions are forced to seek a canoe outlet for their rich products by the very dangerous, costly and laborious route of the falls of the Madeira River.

Widespread discontent re-emerged, and in 1902 a movement against forced labour for a cotton scheme rejected by the local population started along the Rufiji River.

One of them ( 1867 ) claimed to have reached within of Lima, and the little steamer " Napo " forced its way up the violent currents for above the junction with the Pachitea River as far as the Tambo River, from the confluence of the Ucayali with the Amazon.

* After a flooding of the Yellow River farmers are forced to rebel.

He suffers a crushing defeat at Cronium and is forced to pay an indemnity of 1, 000 talents and cede the territory west of the Halycus River to the Carthaginians.

The Wanapum people were never forced onto a reservation, and they lived along the Columbia River in the Priest Rapids Valley until 1943.

They warned that they might be forced to extradite him to Massachusetts and invited him to cross the Seekonk River to territory beyond any charter.

When the fire destroyed the waterworks, just north of the Chicago River, the city's water supply was cut off, and the firefighters were forced to give up.

They never captured the key town of Bastogne and were forced to bypass it, and although they got within a few miles of the Meuse River, their advance was stopped by the 8th and 104th Infantry Divisions, and the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions.

Han forces managed to divide the Xiongnu into two competing nations, the Southern and Northern Xiongnu, and forced the Northern Xiongnu across the Ili River.

Llywelyn was forced to seek terms and to give up all lands east of the River Conwy, but was able to recover them the following year in alliance with the other Welsh princes.

The first invasion was forced to retreat, but in August that year John invaded again with a larger army, crossed the River Conwy and penetrated Snowdonia.

The dispositions of Maxentius may have been faulty as his troops seem to have been arrayed with the River Tiber too close to their rear, giving them little space to allow re-grouping in the event of their formations being forced to give ground.

They were forced from eastern Montana and Wyoming: some bands fled to Canada, while others suffered forced removal to distant reservations, primarily in present-day South Dakota and Nebraska west of the Missouri River.

During and after the revolt, many Santee and their kin fled Minnesota and Eastern Dakota to Canada, or settled in the James River Valley in a short-lived reservation before being forced to move to Crow Creek Reservation on the east bank of the Missouri.