River Crossings

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Well, I am admittedly only on page 6 of the rulebook....and have not looked at the rules for a looooooooong time, but its starting to come back to me. problem is, even when i had read them through, id only played briefly so I by far had no mastery of the game.

I've just reached 5.7 River Crossings: '....No matter the size of the river, any unit that crosses must stop moving once it leaves the river hex.'

Since the section talks about not just bridges, but fords and areas eligible. For crossing by scenario designation, I'm a bit befuddled. Must the unit stop in all three situations: Bridges, fords, and eligible water crossings?

I can see it for fords and wet tracks eligibility, but it makes no sense to me for a bridge. You're on a road, on a bridge, and back on a road but come to a screeching halt?