From 1793 to 1802 there was the "War of the French Revolution", which was followed a short-lived general peace, that broke down in little over a year, so that from 1803 to 1814 there followed the ...
In 1945, during World War II, U.S. forces crossed the Rhine at Remagen, Germany, using the damaged but still usable Ludendorff Bridge. In 1963, the Pan Am Building (today the MetLife Building) first ...