Battle of Peregonovka

Battle of Peregonovka
Part of the Ukrainian War of Independence and the Southern Front of the Russian Civil War
Date26 September 1919
Location
Perehonivka, Kherson (southeast of Uman)
Result

Insurgent victory

Belligerents
Makhnovshchina South Russia
Commanders and leaders
Nestor Makhno
Fedir Shchus
Yakov Slashchov
Nikolai Shilling
Nikolai Sklyarov
Vladimir Almendinger
Boris Gattenberger 
Units involved

Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine

Armed Forces of South Russia

Strength
8,000[1]–15,000[2][verification needed] 15,000[1]–30,000[3]
Casualties and losses
Unknown 600 killed, wounded and captured[4][verification needed]
6,000 killed by insurgents[5]
4,000 killed by peasants[5]
5,000 taken prisoner[5]
23 field guns and 100 machine guns captured[6]

The Battle of Peregonovka (Russian: Битва под Перегоновкой) or Battle of Perehonivka (Ukrainian: Битва під Перегонівкою) was a September 1919 military conflict in which the Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine defeated the Volunteer Army. After retreating west across Ukraine for four months and 600 kilometers, the Insurgent Army turned east and surprised the Volunteer Army. The Insurgent Army reclaimed its capital of Huliaipole within ten days.

  1. ^ a b Darch 2020, p. 76.
  2. ^ В. Телицын. Нестор Махно.-М., 1998.-С.232
  3. ^ Timoshchuk, A. (1996). "В борьбе с Григорьевым и Деникиным в июле – ноябре 1919 г." [In the struggle with Grigoriev and Denikin in July – November 1919.]. Анархо-коммунистические формирования Н. Махно [Anarcho-communist formations of N. Makhno] (in Ukrainian). Simferopol: Tavriia. p. 74. OCLC 36537077. В целом махновцам противостояло 20 тыс. штыков и 10 тыс. сабель. [In general, the Makhnovists were opposed by 20,000 bayonets and 10,000 sabres.]
  4. ^ В. Телицын. Нестор Махно.-М., 1998.-С.239
  5. ^ a b c Darch 2020, p. 80.
  6. ^ Darch 2020, p. 76; Skirda 2004, p. 136.

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