Following his defeat in the giant Battle of Leipzig (Oct 1813), Napoleon's final defeat seemed only a matter of time. But when Coalition armies crossed the Rhine and invaded France, Napoleon ...
CINCINNATI (WXIX) - Firefighters battled a fire at an abandoned apartment building in Over-The-Rhine on Sunday morning ... Flagler said firefighters had to battle the below-freezing temperatures ...
But one notable exception occurred during the Battle of the Bulge ... Unternehmen Wacht am Rhein – "Operation Watch on the Rhine." It was the last major counteroffensive against western Allies.
British Field Marshal Montgomery's audacious plan to drive deep into the heart of industrial Germany relied on American and British paratroops to capture and hold vital bridges over the Rhine ...
Eighty years ago on Jan. 16, Allied armies (U.S. and British) forced a German retreat that ended the last major German ...
Hitler thought of it as another Dunkirk and code-named it “Wacht am Rhein [Watch on the Rhine].” Allied archives would later refer to “the Battle of the Ardennes.” To men who were there ...
He suffered his worst defeat in battle during his September 1944 attempt to cross the Rhine River at the Dutch city of Arnhem. Six thousand airborne Allied troops were lost in the failed effort.
He suffered his worst defeat in battle during his September 1944 attempt to cross the Rhine River at the Dutch city of Arnhem. Six thousand airborne Allied troops were lost in the failed effort.