The Northern Forts of Liep?ja in Latvia are the most well-known part of the historical Liep?ja Fortress, built by the Russian tsarist army in the late 19th century. The forts had been built to protect the navy base from a potential enemy attack. Less than 10 years after its construction, the Liep?ja Fortress ceased operating because of a change in Russia’s defense concept. It was deemed a strategic mistake and was abandoned. Therefore some of the barracks and cannons were dismantled and moved away while others were remelted. The structures were detonated twice to destroy the fortifications but the operations were unsuccessful as some artillery batteries survived till the present. The historical name of the Liep?ja Northern Forts is Fortification Battery No. 1.
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