Libau
Americannoun
noun
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Large Soviet forces arrived this week in Libau and Windau, so large that Latvians feared more Red Army troops would be quartered on them than there are soldiers in the Latvian Army.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Germans trapped between Memel and Riga began trying to escape from Libau, Latvia's second-largest port, and from the port of Windau farther north, under a hail of fire from Red planes.
From Time Magazine Archive
David, his mother and a brother took a ship at Libau, Latvia.
From Time Magazine Archive
The next morning I arose to find the papers filled with the news of the departure of the Baltic Fleet from Libau.
From The International Spy Being the Secret History of the Russo-Japanese War by Allen Upward
It would not be too much to say that the arrival of the little fleet of undersea boats was a turning point in the German drive along the Baltic, which overwhelmed Libau.
From The Story of the Great War, Volume IV (of 8) Champagne, Artois, Grodno; Fall of Nish; Caucasus; Mesopotamia; Development of Air Strategy; United States and the War by Francis Trevelyan Miller
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