Brethren Cemetery of Latvian Legionnaires
Memorial site
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Used sources and references:
Eleksis, R. We invite you to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Battle of More at the Roznēni oak tree. Daugavas Vanagu monthly, No. 6, 1993.
Eleksis, R. Here is and will be a monument to the fallen Latvian legionnaires. Daugavas Vanagu monthly, No. 1., 1992.
Ezergailis, A. Džūkste Monument. Independence Struggle. No. 98, 1991.
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The Battle of More is an episode of the final stage of World War II, which had a great importance in the further course of the war in the territory of Latvia. The Battle of More refers to the hostilities that took place from September 25 to October 5, 1944, on the Sigulda Defense Line in the territory of More parish. In the trenches of the Sigulda Defense Line, approximately 12 km long, soldiers of the 19th Division of the Latvian Legion, fighting heavy battles with a 10 to 15-fold superiority of the enemy for 10 days, stopped the advance of the Red / Soviet Army units towards Riga.