TAKING RIGA BY STORM.

With the exception of the one gun per battery still firing on the Russian gun positions, the German counterbattery guns continued to fire on deeper infantry targets during the first two phases of the creeping barrage. The German success at Riga depended on the split-second synchronization of creeping artillery barrages and infantry infiltration tactics. Riga was also the first clash in which the new infantry assault tactics and Bruchmüller's artillery tactics were combined and synchronized. Features On the strategic level the Battle of Riga, fought in Latvia on Sept. 1-5, 1917, effectively knocked Russia out of World War I. On the tactical level, however, Riga was even more significant. [Extracted from the article]