Acta Militaria

By May 1919 the small British expeditionary force operating out of Murmansk had advanced 500 miles down the Murmansk-Petrograd railway to th...

When you join the navy you probably don't expect to find yourself in the middle of a lake in Russia, but in early 1919 that's exactl...

 British troops in Russia in 1919. In this case, on the Archangel front May 1919 found a small British/White Russian force on the north...

Why Murmansk? Why were British troops in Murmansk in the first place? Well, they were partly overtaken by events, partly wildly optimist...

June 1919 found Admiral Cowan´s First Light Cruiser Squadron of the Royal Navy based at Bjorko harbour in Finland, monitoring the Bolshevik ...

The British intervention in the Russian Civil War was not a great success - after all, the Reds won. However, one place where they did som...

Compared to the large cavalry armies of the East, Estonia seems to have had remarkably few cavalry. For example, at the battle of Cesis in J...

During 1919 the small republic of Estonia had to fight for it´s existence against vastly superior numbers of Bolshevik Russians coming from ...

The collapse of the Austro-Hungarian and Russian empires left a vacuum which many peoples tried to fill. For the historic kingdom of Ukraine...