Libau
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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David, his mother and a brother took a ship at Libau, Latvia.
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
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 ships intended to sail to the relief of Port Arthur were lying at this time some at Revel and others at Libau on the Baltic.
From The International Spy Being the Secret History of the Russo-Japanese War by Upward, Allen
Six hundred vessels, brought under British convoy into the Baltic, docked at Libau, and caravans of wagons filled the roads leading east and south.
From A History of Sea Power by Stevens, William Oliver
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