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  1. Date5 December 1918 – 11 August 1920 · (1 year, 8 months and 6 days)
    LocationLatvia
    ResultLatvian victory · Latvian–Soviet Peace Treaty
  1. November 18, 1918

    After the Bolshevik coup of November 1917 in Petrograd (now Saint Petersburg), the Latvian People’s Council, representing peasant, bourgeois, and socialist groups, proclaimed independence on November 18, 1918, under the leadership of Kārlis Ulmanis, head of the Latvian Farmers’ Union (Latvijas Zemnieku Savienība; LZS).
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    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 proclaimed Republic of Latvia was invaded by Soviet Russia, and the signing of the Latvian-Soviet Riga Peace Treaty on 11 August 1920.
    Certain episodes of the Latvian Independence War were also part of the Polish-Soviet War, particularly the Battle of Daugavpils . On 18 November 1918 the People's Council of Latvia proclaimed the Independence of the Republic of Latvia and created the Latvian Provisional Government headed by Kārlis Ulmanis .
    By the spring the German army had entered Latvia in their counterattack against Russia, and Latvian Home Guards fought against them alongside the Russian army. By the fall of 1915 the Germans controlled half of Latvia, so several Latvians asked the Russian Command if they could create 100% Latvian units to protect their homeland.
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    The Estonian army managed to push the Red Army out of its territory as early as February 1919. In Latvia, this proved significantly more difficult, with the Red Army occupying Riga on 3 January 1919 and almost the entire territory claimed by independent Latvia over the next few weeks, except for a stretch along the coast at Liepaja.
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