There were numerous battles on the Daugava river :Battle of Kokenhausen (1601) between the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and Sweden Battle of Kircholm (1605) between the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and Sweden Battle of Daugavpils (1919), a joint Polish–Latvian operation against Bolshevist Russia Battle of the Dvina (1920), a part of the Battle of the Niemen River during the Polish–Bolshevik War Battle of the Dvina (1941), during the German invasion of the USSR