Estonian War of Independence
| Estonian War of Independence | ||||||||||
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| Part of Aftermath of the World War I, Russian Civil War, Latvian War of Independence and Heimosodat | ||||||||||
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| Belligerents | ||||||||||
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Russia Commune of Estonia Soviet Latvia |
Landeswehr Freikorps | ||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | ||||||||||
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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 | ||||||||||
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7 January 1919: 4,450–16,500 Including
May 1919: 86,000 Including
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7 January 1919: 5,750–7,250 26 assault guns 3 armoured cars 1 armoured train 141 machine guns May 1919: 80,000 | June 1919: 20,000 | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | ||||||||||
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3,588 killed 15,000 injured |
Unknown 10,000 captured |
400 killed 1,500 wounded | ||||||||
The Estonian War of Independence, also known as the War of Freedom in Estonia, 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.