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After three days, the Russian minefields had been cleared, and the flotilla entered the gulf on 19 August, but reports of Allied submarines in the area prompted a German withdrawal from the gulf the following day. [4] The battle of the destroyer Novik with the German destroyers V-99 and V-100 in the Gulf of Riga on 4 (17) August 1915. Artist G ...
The Gulf of Riga campaign was fought ... of Riga in the Baltic Sea played a strategical role in naval warfare and was target of the German offensive during the Battle ...
Soviet forces had advanced towards the Baltic coast in the beginning of their Tartu offensive and at the end of the highly successful Belorussian offensive (Operation Bagration), during July and August 1944, and at one point had broken through to the Gulf of Riga. The victories in July were highly unexpected, and at one point on July 31, the ...
Serving in the Baltic Sea during World War I, Slava was the largest ship of the Russian Gulf of Riga Squadron that fought the German High Seas Fleet in the Battle of the Gulf of Riga in August 1915. She repeatedly bombarded German positions and troops for the rest of 1915 and during 1916.
The Riga offensive (Russian: Рижская операция), also called the Jugla Offensive or the Battle of Riga (German: Schlacht um Riga), took place in early September 1917 and was the last major campaign on the Eastern Front of World War I before the Russian Provisional Government and its army began disintegrating.
The Battle of Riga may refer to: Battle of Riga (1203), an engagement of the Livonian Crusade; Battle of Riga (1215), an engagement of the Livonian Crusade; Battle of the Gulf of Riga (1915), a naval battle of World War I; Battle of Riga (1917), a land battle of the World War I Battle of Jugla, one part of the 1917 battle
In the first of these, Posen supported a German naval assault in the Battle of the Gulf of Riga. The ship was sent back to the Baltic in 1918 to support the White Finns in the Finnish Civil War. At the end of the war, Posen remained in Germany while the majority of the fleet was interned in Scapa Flow.
Battle of the Gulf of Riga: World War I: Kaiserliche Marine: Imperial Russian Navy: Russian victory 8 January 1916: Action of 8 January 1916: World War I: Ottoman Navy: Imperial Russian Navy: Indecisive 31 May – 1 June 1916: Battle of Jutland: World War I: Kaiserliche Marine: Royal Navy: British Strategic Victory/German Tactical Victory 16 ...