The Battle of Tulgas was part of the North Russia Intervention into the Russian Civil War and was fought between Allied and Bolshevik troops on the Northern Dvina River 200 miles south of Arkhangelsk.
Illustration of the battle, White Russians battling Bolsheviks
The White movement, also known as the Whites, was one of the main factions of the Russian Civil War of 1917–1922. It was led mainly by the right-wing and conservative officers of the Russian Empire, w
Battle of Tulgas
…11–14, 1918 Location Tulgas, by the Northern Dvina River, Russian SFSR Result Allied victory Belligerents United Kingdom France United States Canada White Russia Soviet Russia Commanders and leaders Robert Boyd Melochofski † Strength One US Rifle Company (300 men) One British Rifle Company Canadian Artillery…
Propaganda poster of the Russian Whites, contrasting its positive ideal of a "Holy" Christian Russia to Soviet Russia of the Bolsheviks
"Why aren't you in the army?", Volunteer Army recruiting poster during the Russian Civil War
Kornilov's Shock Detachment (8th Army), later became the Volunteer Army's elite Shock Regiment
In the summer of 1919, Denikin's troops captured Kharkiv