Tens of thousands of Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian soldiers were put into Russian units, by all accounts they fought bravely. In August 1915 Latvian politicians achieved the creation of national Latvian light-infantry units under their own officers. The outbreak of the World War in August 1914, the Baltic region immediately became a battleground between the Russian and German Empires with the fighting especially affecting Lithuania and Latvia. These non-Russian peoples on empire’s western borders, were swept up in a rising tide of linguistic and cultural nationalism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It is worth looking at this raid in the broad context of the history of the Baltic region as well as in the context of general military history and military theory.įrom 1815 to 1917, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland were all part of the Russian Empire. It is the perhaps worth recalling the events of this month 101 years ago when Royal Navy Coast Motor Boats (CMBs) and aircraft of the Royal Air Force made a daring raid on the great naval base of Kronstadt putting much of the Bolshevik fleet that menaced the Baltic region out of commission.
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