Estonian War of Independence

Estonian War of Independence
Part of Russian Civil War and Latvian War of Independence
Date28 November 1918 – 2 February 1920
(1 year, 2 months and 5 days)
Location
Estonia, Latvia, Northwestern Russia
Result

Estonian victory

Territorial
changes
Estonia gains independence
Belligerents

 Estonia

Russia White Movement

 United Kingdom[a]
 Soviet Russia
Commune of Estonia
 Soviet Latvia
Landeswehr
Freikorps
Commanders and leaders
Estonia Konstantin Päts
Estonia Otto Strandman
Estonia Jaan Tõnisson
Estonia Johan Laidoner
Estonia Jaan Soots
Russia Nikolai Yudenich
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Vladimir Lenin
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Leon Trotsky
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Jukums Vācietis
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Sergey Kamenev
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Dmitry Nadyozhny
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Vladimir Gittis
German Empire Rüdiger von der Goltz
German Empire Alfred Fletcher
Strength

7 January 1919: 4,450[1]–16,500[2]

Including

May 1919: 86,000
Including
7 January 1919: 5,750–7,250[1]
26 assault guns
3 armoured cars
1 armoured train
141 machine guns[1]

May 1919: 80,000[5]
June 1919: 20,000[5]
Casualties and losses
3,588 killed[6][7]
15,000 injured[5]
Unknown
10,000 captured[8]
400 killed
1,500 wounded[9]

The Estonian War of Independence,[c] also known as the Estonian Liberation War, was a defensive campaign of the Estonian Army and its allies, most notably the United Kingdom, against the Soviet Russian westward offensive of 1918–1919 and the 1919 aggression of the pro–German Baltische Landeswehr. The campaign was the struggle of the newly established democratic state of Estonia for independence in the aftermath of World War I. It resulted in a victory for Estonia and was concluded in the 1920 Treaty of Tartu.


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