The Red Army in Crimea

General denikin managed to stage one last counter attack and actually recaptured rostov on february twentieth, but by then he was being flanked on all sides. As they fell back, refugees followed in a flood. By the end of march 19 20, about 34 thousand people had been evacuated, but tens thousands more were stranded. General denekin understood that whether the whites would ultimately come back from the disasters of late 19 19 and early 19 20 would not be his question to answer. He spent the next several years bouncing around between england, belgium and hungary, before finally settling in france in the mid 19 twenties. Despite his ongoing vehement hatred of the