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Whites Evacuate Novorossiysk

March 27 1920, Novorossiysk--The Volunteer Army, which at one point had threatened Moscow, now just hoped to escape capture by the Reds after their Don line broke in early March. The major port available to them was Novorossiysk, two years earlier the last refuge of the Russian Black Sea Fleet from the Germans. British, French, and American ships helped evacuate as many as possible, taking over 34,000 men of the Volunteer Army to the last stronghold of the Whites in the area, in Crimea. In the earlier days of the evacuation, they even moved 22,000 Red PoWs.

The evacuation was not even close to complete, however, when Red forces approached the town and brought an end to it on March 27; over 80,000 troops and over 100,000 refugees were left behind. 22,000 men were captured when the Reds entered Novorossiysk; some were able to escape to Tuapse instead, further down the coast, and some were evacuated before the Reds reached the town on April 8. The rest of the Volunteer Army left behind would surrender in Sochi at the end of April.

The defeats and the botched evacuation forced Denikin out of the command of the remaining White forces in Crimea; on April 1, he stepped down and was replaced by Wrangel.

Sources include: Evan Mawdsley, The Russian Civil War.