Maurice Janin
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Pierre-Thiébaut-Charles-Maurice Janin was a French general and military commander who was the chief of the Allied military mission in Siberia during the Russian Civil War. He is known for his command
Military postcard of the Czechoslovak Legion with Maurice Janin
Maurice Janin with his staff in Siberia (taken between 1918 and 1920).
The Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War consisted of a series of multi-national military expeditions that began in 1918. The initial impetus behind the interventions was to secure munitions a
Maurice Janin
…war for the Czechoslovak national council (based in Paris). By July, he was appointed chief of the Allied military mission in Siberia as part of the intervention in the Russian Civil War and moved back to Russia. In November there was a bloodless coup against the All-Russian Directory (the Allied supported Russian government), several…
Japanese troops parading among other allied troops in Vladivostok, 1918
Czechoslovak troops in Vladivostok (1918)
Canadian Siberian Expeditionary Force, 1919
American troops parading in Vladivostok, August 1918