Victory Day in the Battle of Vynnus in Estonia

View from above CesisJune 23 - Victory Day (victory in the Vynnu battle). On June 23, 1919, Estonian troops repulsed the attack of the German forces of Landeswehr and won the victory in the city of Vynnu (Cesis, Northern Latvia).

It was on June 23, 1919, that Estonian troops repelled the German attack and occupied the city of Vynna (Cesis).

On June 23, 1919, by the evening the Latvian Landeswehr was driven out of the city of Cesis (Vynnu). The Estonian army, which numbered up to 8,000 people, defeated the so-called Landeswehr in the battle near the city of Vynnu (Cesis), the German army of 6,000 soldiers, which captured Riga and attacked Estonia.

Estonia’s victory over the Landeswehr gave Latvia an opportunity to strengthen itself as a nation-state and at the same time strengthened Estonia’s southern border.