Memel
Americannoun
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the German name for Klaipeda
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the lower course of the Neman River
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When Napoleon and Alexander I of Russia met in 1807 to carve up Europe in the Treaty of Tilsit, the site for preliminary talks was an elaborate barge anchored in the River Memel in Prussia.
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Reason: Hitler seized last spring the only important Lithuanian harbor, Memel.
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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.
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More alarming than any other incident was the arrival in Danzig of the same husky young Germans who "toured" Czecho-Slovakia and Memel just before Adolf Hitler moved in.
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On the journey to Paris he paused at Memel to pay his respects to Frederick William and his Queen.
From The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. III. (of IV.) by William Milligan Sloane
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