- by the
Teutonic Knights, with the name
evolving into the
German form of
Pillau. In 1497, a
storm surge dug a new gat in
front of the village, and another...
- The
Pillau class of
light cruisers was a pair of
ships built in
Germany just
before the
start of
World War I. The
class consisted of SMS
Pillau and Elbing...
-
Vistula Spit from the
peninsula (called
Pillau Peninsula in Russia: Пиллауский полуостров,
after the
Pillau Fortress [de])
which was part of the Vistula...
- SMS
Pillau was a
light cruiser of the
Imperial German Navy. The ship,
originally ordered in 1913 by the
Russian navy
under the name
Maraviev Amurskyy,...
-
place for
control of
overland connection between Königsberg and the port of
Pillau,
however by
March 1945 Königsberg was
hundreds of
kilometres behind the...
- up a
corridor from Königsberg to
Pillau,
which allowed thousands of
refugees to
escape and wait for
ships in
Pillau,
which would eventually transport...
-
crowded town of
Pillau. The
final Soviet ****ault on Königsberg
started on 2
April with a
heavy bombardment of the city. The land
route to
Pillau was once again...
-
remaining in Sambia.
German defence efforts had
largely focused on the port of
Pillau at the tip of the peninsula,
which was the main
evacuation point for casualties...
-
Germans were very late in
adapting 5.9-inch guns (not
doing so
until the
Pillau class of 1913);
Grand Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz's
recalcitrance over the...
-
control of many of the
cities in
Royal and
Ducal Prussia (including Piława (
Pillau),
Memel and Elbląg (Elbing). The
Swedes later conducted a
series of invasions...
