Estonian War of Independence

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Estonian War of Independence
Part of Russian Civil War and Latvian War of Independence
Date 28 November 1918 – 2 February 1920 (1 year, 2 months and 5 days) Location Estonia, Latvia, Northwestern Russia Result Estonian victory Treaty of Tartu Expulsion of the Red Army from Estonia Territorial changes Estonia gains independence
Belligerents
Estonia Finnish, Danish, and Swedish volunteers North Latvian Brigade White Movement  United Kingdom[a]	Soviet Russia Commune of Estonia  Soviet Latvia	Landeswehr Freikorps
Commanders and leaders
Konstantin Päts Otto Strandman Jaan Tõnisson Johan Laidoner Jaan Soots Nikolai Yudenich	Vladimir Lenin Leon Trotsky Jukums Vācietis Sergey Kamenev Dmitry Nadyozhny Vladimir Gittis	Rüdiger von der Goltz Alfred Fletcher
Strength
7 January 1919: 4,450[1]–16,500[2] Including 14,500 Estonian national guard + Estonian army (in process of formation) 6th Light Cruiser Squadron of the Royal Navy[1] 2,000 Finnish volunteers + respective number of Finnish officers,[3] Baltic German forces[b] May 1919: 86,000 Including Estonian army (74,500)[2] Northern Corps (2,750) North Latvian Brigade (1,500) Baltic Battalion (900) Ingrian Battalion Swedish/Danish volunteer companies[5] 1st Light Cruiser Squadron	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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