Joe Hall Patton
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THG Podcast: Counterfactuals - 1915 Battle of the Gulf of Riga
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Today we talk about a little remembered battle that could have been a turning point in the First World War - a battle between the German High Seas fleet and the Russian Baltic fleet in the Gulf of Riga.
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