In 1824, Disraeli toured Belgium and the Rhine Valley with his father and later wrote that it was while travelling on the Rhine that he decided to abandon the law: " I determined when descending those magical waters that I would not be a lawyer.

These two tribes intended to pass into Italy through the western passes, while the Cimbri and the Tigurines were to take the northern route across the Rhine and later across the Tirolian Alps.

In 350, the general Magnentius declared himself emperor at Augustodunum with the support of the troops on the Rhine frontier-and later the western provinces of the Empire.

The area, roughly encompassing the later geographical meanings of Flanders, had been inhabited by Celts until Germanic people began immigrating by crossing the Rhine, either gradually driving them south-or westwards, or rather merging with them.

This city would later be used as a springboard for Operation Veritable, the invasion across the Rhine River by Allied Troops.

Illusionist Milbourne Christopher wrote years later that he felt " there are at least a dozen ways a subject who wished to cheat under the conditions Rhine described could deceive the investigator ".

King Andrew II of Hungary and, somewhat later, a fleet of crusaders from the region along the Lower Rhine finally departed for the Holy Land.

Two years later, as the Imperial army pursued the defeated Swedes into southwest Germany, deaths from epidemics were high along the Rhine River.

Following France's October 10 declaration of war, it began military operations three days later, invading the Duchy of Lorraine and besieging the imperial fortress at Kehl, across the Rhine River from Strasbourg, gaining control of both objectives in a few weeks.

* Romans build the Traiectum fortification near the mouth of the Rhine, which will later grow to be the city of Utrecht.

Prussia first set foot on the Rhine in 1609 by the occupation of the Duchy of Cleves and about a century later Upper Guelders and Moers also became Prussian.

The County Palatine of the Rhine (), later the Electoral Palatinate (), was a historical territory of the Holy Roman Empire, a palatinate administered by a count palatine.

The Electoral Palatinate was a much larger territory than what later became known as the Rhenish Palatinate ( Rheinpfalz ), on the left bank of the Rhine, and is now the modern region of the Palatinate in the German federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate and parts of the French region of Alsace ( bailiwick of Seltz from 1418 to 1766 ).

The next morning, the French Army of the Rhine, rather than resume the battle with an attack of its own against the battle-weary German armies, retreated to Metz where they were besieged and forced to surrender two months later.

In Italy, Bonaparte won a notable victory against the Austrians at Marengo in 1800, but the decisive win came on the Rhine at Hohenlinden later that year.

A Prussian king first set foot on the Rhine in 1609 by the occupation of the Duchy of Cleves and about a century later Upper Guelders and Moers also became Prussian.

They raided along the then-wealthy coast of Gallia Belgica ( i. e., the land south of the Rhine and north of the Rivers Marne and Seine ), and the Chauci made inroads into the region that would later become the Roman province of Germania Inferior ( which mostly consisted of the modern southern Netherlands ).

In the later Middle Ages serfdom began to disappear west of the Rhine even as it spread through eastern Europe.

In 1806 he joined the Confederation of the Rhine and received further additions of territory containing 160, 000 inhabitants ; a little later, by the peace of Vienna in October 1809, about 110, 000 more persons came under his rule.

King Rudolf awarded him with the Burghauptmannamt ( Castle Lordship ) of Kalsmunt Castle in Wetzlar and a year later that of Gutenfels Castle near Kaub ( where he became a vassal of the Counts Palatine of the Rhine ).

According to the statements of a later era, Regino was the son of noble parents and was born at the stronghold of Altrip on the Rhine near Speyer at an unknown date.

Austrian General von Wurmser succeeded in briefly capturing the lines in October 1793, but was defeated two months later by General Pichegru of the French Army and forced to retreat, along with the Prussians, across the Rhine River.

Some historians also speak of a later or modern Pietism, characterizing thereby a party in the German Church which was probably at first influenced by some remains of Spener's Pietism in Westphalia, on the Rhine, in Württemberg, and at Halle and Berlin.

The Alemanni established a series of territorially defined pagi ( cantons ) on the east bank of the Rhine.

Ultimately, it established the Rhine as the boundary of the Roman Empire for the next four hundred years, until the decline of the Roman influence in the West.

* The Rhine River is established as the boundary between the Latin and German speaking worlds, following the defeat of the Roman army, under the command of Varus, at the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest.

Julius Caesar conquered the tribes on the left bank, and Augustus established numerous fortified posts on the Rhine, but the Romans never succeeded in gaining a firm footing on the right bank.

His action in abolishing all tolls established on the Rhine since 1250, led the Rhenish prince-archbishops and the Elector of the Palatinate to form a league against him.

Liechtenstein's borders have remained unchanged since 1434, when the Rhine established the border between the Holy Roman Empire and the Swiss cantons.

* Gallienus established himself at Mediolanum ( modern Milan ), he reorganizes the army supported by elite cavalry and dispatch troops to the Rhine frontier.

Frankish settlers are established in areas in the north and the east to help with the defense of the Rhine frontier.

Julius Caesar conquered the tribes on the left bank, and Augustus established numerous fortified posts on the Rhine, but the Romans never succeeded in gaining a firm footing on the right bank.

At the peace of Basel in 1795 the whole of the left bank of the Rhine was resigned to France which occupied the area before and established colonial government.

The Campine region was scarcely populated in the 19th century and with the availability of canals, the Iron Rhine and cheap labor, several metallurgies were established in the region.

The Union Minière du Haut Katanga founded the Société Générale Métallurgique de Hoboken in Olen, which was established along the Iron Rhine and the Albert Canal.

Following the Battle of Austerlitz in December 1805, The Holy Roman Empire was dissolved on 6 August 1806 when the last Holy Roman Emperor Francis II abdicated, following a crushing defeat at the Battle of Austerlitz by the French under Napoleon resulting in the Treaty of Pressburg, and sixteen of France's allies among the German states ( including Bavaria and Württemberg ) established the Confederation of the Rhine in July 1806.

Rundstedt believed even at this stage that an effective defensive line could only be established on the Rhine, but this would have meant giving up large areas of German territory, and Hitler would not countenance it.

* Fürstprimas ( Prince primate ) referred to the head of the member states of the Napoleonic Confederation of the Rhine established in 1806, then held by the Mainz archbishop Karl Theodor Anton Maria von Dalberg.

He proclaimed the “ Autonomous Republic of the Palatinate .” While the new government was getting itself established, resistance was already being organised on the opposite side of the Rhine.

Augustus then ordered Roman withdrawal from Magna Germania ( completed by AD 16 ) and established the boundary of the Roman Empire as being the Rhine and the Danube.

The enclave established in southern Brittany was linked closely to the riverine and landward route via the Loire and across the Gatinais valley to the Seine valley and thence to the lower Rhine.

Under the pretext of Jovinus ' imperial authority, Gundahar and his Burgundians established themselves on the left bank of the Rhine ( the Roman side ) between the river Lauter and the Nahe.

' The policy enunciated in Military Committee document MC14 / 1, issued in December 1952, saw the defence of Germany as principally a delaying action, to allow a line of resistance to be established along the lines of the IJssel and Rhine rivers.

Meanwhile French Armies overran the Netherlands and established the Batavian Republic, occupied the left bank of the Rhine and forced Spain, Prussia and several German States to sue for peace enhancing the prestige of the Convention.

The Battle of Tourcoing ( 1794 ) established Moreau's military fame, and in 1795 he was given the command of the Army of the Rhine-and-Moselle, with which he crossed the Rhine and advanced into Germany.

He says that later, the Franks migrated to Germania led by Marcomer, and established themselves along the Rhine.

By the time of the bridge's collapse, the Americans had established a substantial bridgehead on the far side of the Rhine and had additional pontoon bridges in place.