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May 1919: 86,000 | strength2 = 7 January 1919: 5,750–7,250〔 May 1919: 80,000〔 | strength3 = June 1919: 20,000〔 |casualties1=5,000 dead 15,000 injured〔 |casualties2=unknown 10,000 captured〔 |casualties3=400 killed 1,500 injured〔Kaevats, Ülo: ''Eesti Entsüklopeedia 5'', page 396. Valgus, 1990, ISBN 5-89900-009-0〕 }} The Estonian War of Independence ((エストニア語:Vabadussõda), literally "Freedom War"), also known as the Estonian Liberation War, was a defensive campaign of the Estonian Army and its allies, most notably the White Russian Northwestern Army, Latvia, and the United Kingdom, against the Soviet Western Front offensive and the aggression of the ''Baltische Landeswehr''. It was fought in connection with the Russian Civil War during 1918–1920. The campaign was the struggle of Estonia for its sovereignty in the aftermath of World War I. It resulted in a victory for the newly established state and was concluded in the Treaty of Tartu. ==Preface== In November 1917, upon the disintegration of the Russian Empire, a diet of the Autonomous Governorate of Estonia, the Estonian Provincial Assembly, which had been elected in the spring of that year, proclaimed itself the highest authority in Estonia. Soon thereafter, the Bolsheviks dissolved the Estonian Provincial Assembly and temporarily forced the pro-independence Estonians underground in the capital Tallinn. A few months later, using the interval between the Red Army's retreat and the arrival of the Imperial German Army, the Salvation Committee of the Estonian National Council Maapäev issued the Estonian Declaration of Independence in Tallinn on 24 February 1918〔(Estonian Declaration of Independence 24 February 1918 ) at www.president.ee〕 and formed the Estonian Provisional Government. This first period of independence was extremely short-lived, as the German troops entered Tallinn on the following day. The German authorities recognized neither the provisional government, nor its claim for Estonia's independence, counting them as a self-styled group usurping sovereign rights of the Baltic nobility. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Estonian War of Independence」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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