Battle of Bolshie Ozerki

Battle of Bolshie Ozerki
Part of the Allied North Russia Intervention during the Russian Civil War
A Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army soldier that was killed during an attempted flank attack on Allied positions along the Obozerskaya road at Verst 16. April 8, 1919
Date 31 March – 2 April 1919[1] Location Bolshie Ozerki, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia Result White and allies victory
Belligerents
United Kingdom  United States Northern Russia Poland	Russian SFSR
Commanders and leaders
Edmund Ironside George Evans Stewart	Aleksandr Samoylo
Strength
~2,000[1]	~7,000[1]
Casualties and losses
At least 75 killed[1]	~2,000 (Allied claim)[1]

The Battle of Bolshie Ozerki was a major engagement fought during the Allied North Russia Intervention in the Russian Civil War. Beginning on March 31, 1919, a force of British, American, Polish, and White Russian troops engaged several Red Army partisan regiments at the village of Bolshie Ozerki. Although the initial Allied attacks were repelled, the outnumbered Allies managed to repel the Soviet flanking attempts that followed and the Red Army was later ordered to withdraw. Allied forces began to withdraw rapidly from northern Russia shortly thereafter.^[1][2]

The battle was the last engagement of British forces in the intervention. It was also one of the last significant engagements to involve American forces. Two months later, American forces of the Siberian Intervention successfully defended their camp from a Red attack at Romanovka by forces that greatly outnumbered them. The following month, they inflicted hundreds of casualties during the Suchan Valley Campaign.