Nijmegen in a sentence

Nijmegen British tanks of XXX Corps cross the road bridge at Nijmegen Canvas assault boat The 82nd did not drop men on both sides of the Nijmegen bridge: all troops were dropped on the south side of the Waal river.

More recently, on 23 February 1981, the Nijmegen Police Department and the Dutch Army stormed the Piersonstraat and Zeigelhof, a squatted housing block in the city centre of Nijmegen.

A foggy warm sunrise during a new heat record in Nijmegen, the Netherlands on Sept. 10, 2023.

Gavin later ensured relief aid made it to Nijmegen, a town the 82nd Abn.

In the current publication, the RUB scientists used the free electron lasers at Radboud University in Nijmegen in The Netherlands, which allows for high powers in the terahertz frequency region.

There was "a great deal of damage to homes in the immediate vicinity" on Hillekensacker in Nijmegen's 't Acker district.

Together, the Black Lives Matter protests have collectively drawn tens of thousands to demonstrations in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Utrecht, The Hague, Groningen, Nijmegen, Enchede, Maastricht and Zwolle.

A woman jogs along the Zalige bridge in Nijmegen, Netherlands.

Because these are all left-wing parties, Nijmegen received the nickname ' Havana on the Waal'.

Before the operation on the 15 September Gavin verbally ordered Lt-Col Linquist of the 508th to send a battalion to the Nijmegen bridge after landing.

Beginning with the annexation of Artois in 1659, most of the current Nord department territory had been acquired by the time of the Treaty of Nijmegen in 1678.

British POWs at Arnhem The Germans overcame pockets of resistance throughout the day, gaining control of the northern bridge approaches and permitting reinforcements to cross the span and reinforce units further south near Nijmegen.

Early in the day the 9th SS Reconnaissance Battalion (sent south the day before) concluded it was not needed in Nijmegen and returned to Arnhem.

Five hours after the initial landing, feeling that the British were tied down in Arnhem, the Reconnaissance Battalion of the 9th SS Panzer Division was able to cross the Arnhem bridge and drive to Nijmegen and the bridge over the Waal branch of the Rhine.

Gavin wanted to occupy the Grave and Maas (Meuse)-Waal canal bridges before Nijmegen bridges.

If either of the Nijmegen or Arnhem bridges were not captured and held, the advance of XXX Corps would be blocked and Operation Market Garden would fail.

In 1678 Nijmegen was host to the negotiations between the European powers that aimed to put an end to the constant warfare that had ravaged the continent for years.

In 1923 the current Radboud University Nijmegen was founded and in 1927 a channel was dug between the Waal and Maas rivers.

In 1940, the Netherlands was invaded by Germany with Nijmegen being the first Dutch city to fall into German hands.

Indeed, because of the Austrasian origins of the Carolingians in the area between the Rhine and the Maas, the cities of Aachen, Maastricht, Liège and Nijmegen were at the heart of Carolingian culture.