Mores Battle Memorial Park Memorial site
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The park was created in the former battle place in the Centre of More Parish where during the first two weeks of 1944 in the Second World War, major battles were held, holding thestrategically created defence line and preventing the Red Army from breaking through to Riga, thus affecting the further course of history.
You can see fragments of wartime relics and bunker sites here. A commemorative stone created by the sculptor H. Sprincis, as well as a Memorial Plaque with 186 soldiers names carved into the granite, are located in the Battles of More Memorial Park.
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http://tourism.sigulda.lv/mores-kauju-pieminas-parks-un-piemineklis-lv/
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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.