The Latvian War of Independence, sometimes called Latvia's freedom battles or the Latvian War of Liberation, was a series of military conflicts in Latvia between 5 December 1918, after the newly procl
The North Latvian Brigade entering Riga in 1919
Soldiers mobilized by the Provisional Government of Latvia marching along Jūras Street in Limbaži in 1919
Signing of the Latvian-Soviet Russian Peace Treaty in Riga, 1920
Currency issued by the Latvian Provisional Government in 1918–19
The Baltic Landwehr or Baltische Landeswehr was the name of the unified armed forces of Couronian and Livonian nobility from 7 December 1918 to 3 July 1919.
Rüdiger von der Goltz, Major-General
A member of the Baltic Landeswehr
German Landeswehr memorial, Forest Cemetery, Riga