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1093:. Kornilov organized his army into three brigades under Markov, Bogaevskii and Erdeli. The attack, which began on 10 April, was met with heavy resistance from forces more than twice the size of the Volunteers. Kornilov was killed when an artillery shell hit the farmhouse where he had set up headquarters. Some accounts have characterized this event as "very bad luck" because shell had hit the one room where Kornilov was, killing him but not injuring anybody else present in the building. He was succeeded in command by Denikin, who decided to abandon the assault after five days of fighting, and withdraw to the north. Hearing of the death of Kornilov, 1078:. The march took them through Stavropol province and their first battle, and victory, against the Bolsheviks on 6 March at Lezhanka. On 9 March, the army entered the Kuban, and another battle on 14 March at Berezanskaia. On 17 March, after four days of fighting, the army captured Korenovskaia, and its large cache of military supplies. On 28 March, the bitterest battle was fought against the Bolsheviks in which a number of volunteer officers froze to death crossing a small river with shallow icy water, hence the name of the campaign. By the end of March, the Volunteer Army was able to absorb 342: 331: 320: 234: 383: 150: 360: 25: 307: 296: 285: 273: 261: 213: 870: 1074:, "United by a boundless hatred of the enemy, the soldiers performed miracles of military accomplishment; the world had seen few armies of comparable size with greater fighting ability." On 23 February, the army entered Olginskaia for a rendezvous with Ataman Popov on 26 February. However, Popov elected to stay within the Don, while the Volunteer Army headed south towards Ekaterinodar and the 1126: 1117:. Krasnov agreed to support the Volunteer Army with weapons and money, and take on the sick and wounded. In June, Alekseev established a political department in Novocherkassk, and Denikin published his "Goals of the Army". Amongst other points, it stated "the Germans must withdraw from the territory of Russia; the Bolsheviks must capitulate and be disarmed..." 1035:
28 January] 1918. Kornilov, now in command of some 4,000 men at Rostov, judged it pointless to attempt a defence of the city in the face of superior forces. Instead, the Volunteers made ready to relocate to the south, deep into the Kuban, in the hope of attracting more support, though the
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On the evening of 13 April, the Volunteer Army's forced march began in order to save the demoralized Volunteer Army, avoiding large Red forces. Denikin left 211 of his severely wounded, with doctors and nurses, at Elizavetinskaia, Diad'kovskaia, and Il'inskaia. By the beginning of May, the army had
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The Cossacks aimed primarily to defend their independence, but the Volunteers persuaded them that they could guarantee this only by joining with them in fighting against the Bolsheviks, who had the support of a large part of the non-Cossack population of the Don region. With the encouragement of
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made it back to the border of the Don. According to Kenez, "The Ice March had ended. The Army, which had started the march with four thousand soldiers, had five thousand at the end of the campaign. But the greatest achievement of the march was simply survival."
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declared its independence. Novocherkassk became a haven for those opposed to the Bolshevik Revolution, and soon hosted the headquarters of the Volunteer Army, made up for the most part of former
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whole area was in deep winter. Thus began the Ice March. With his defenses gone and his government in a state of collapse, Kaledin shot himself (11 February [
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2 December] 1917. However, by the beginning of 1918 better-organised and stronger Communist forces began an advance from the north, capturing
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Only on 2 December, when supported by Alekseyev's Volunteer Army, did Kaledin succeed in retaking the city and driving the Bolsheviks from Rostov.
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The Volunteer Army established its headquarters in Mechetinskaia and Egorlykskaia, and established contact with Ataman
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From his four thousand men, Kornilov formed three regiments under General S. L. Markov, Colonel Nezhintsev, General
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recruitment poster represents a woman addressing her son with the words: "My son! Go and save your Motherland!"
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October] 1917, many of those opposed to the new government gravitated towards the fringes of the old
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This article is about the White Army's retreat towards Kuban. For the retreat across Lake Baikal, see
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On 23 February, as the Red Army entered Rostov, Kornilov began the march south across the frozen
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7 November] 1917, not long after the Communists took control in central Russia, the
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Kaledin, the Whites, still only some 500 strong, managed to recapture the city of
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lasting from February to May 1918, was one of the defining moments in the
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With his army now double in size, Kornilov decided to mount an attack on
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was a traditional symbol of hope in Russian fairy tales and legend.
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All those who survived the First Kuban Campaign, referred to as
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Alexey Tolstoy, " Road to Calvary", book two "18th year".
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Great Siberian Ice march
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Russian Civil War

Volunteer Army
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