| Battle of Dushak | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Part of the Malleson Mission, and the Russian Civil War | |||||||||
 The oasis near Merv, Turkmenistan | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
 India White movement |
 Soviet Russia | ||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
| Major-General Wilfrid Malleson | Unknown Soviet commander | ||||||||
| Units involved | |||||||||
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19th Punjabis Transcaspian Infantary | Soviet Red Army | ||||||||
| Strength | |||||||||
| c. 1,000[a] | c. 3,000 Soviet Red Army soldiers | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
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47 killed 139 wounded | ~1,000 casualties | ||||||||
The Battle of Dushak (Russian: Битва при Душаке, romanized: Bitwa pri Dushake) occurred in August 1918 as part of the British Malleson Mission during the Russian Civil War. British Indian troops, under the command of Major-General Wilfrid Malleson, engaged Soviet Red Army forces near the town of Dushak in the Transcaspian Region (modern-day Turkmenistan). The battle was a key confrontation in the Allied intervention aimed at halting the spread of Bolshevik influence in Central Asia.[4]
- ^ Kinvig, Clifford (2006-01-01). Churchill's Crusade: The British Invasion of Russia, 1918-1920. A&C Black. ISBN 978-1-85285-477-5.
- ^ C. H. Ellis (1963). The British Intervention In Transcaspia 1918 1919. Universal Digital Library. University Of California Press. p. 82.
- ^ C. H. Ellis (1963). The British Intervention In Transcaspia 1918 1919. Universal Digital Library. University Of California Press. p. 82.
- ^ Kinvig, Clifford (2006-01-01). Churchill's Crusade: The British Invasion of Russia, 1918-1920. A&C Black. ISBN 978-1-85285-477-5.
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