The White advance crests at Orel
1919 · Event
Denikin's Volunteer Army takes Orel, 250 miles from Moscow, at the same moment Yudenich reaches the suburbs of Petrograd — the Whites' high-water mark. Both drives break within the fortnight; the counter-offensive that follows never really stops until the Black Sea.
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