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Events on November 11 in history

West Russian Volunteer Army
1919Nov, 11

Latvian forces defeat the West Russian Volunteer Army at Riga in the Latvian War of Independence.

The West Russian Volunteer Army (Russian: Русская Западная добровольческая армия, romanized: Russkaya Zapadnaya dobrovol'cheskaya armiya) or Bermontians (Latvian: Bermontieši, Lithuanian: Bermontininkai) was an army in the Baltic provinces of the former Russian Empire during the Russian Civil War in 1918–20.

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