The Battle of Orrel

By mid october, the most advanced forces of the white volunteer army had entered the city of orel but this was as close as they are ever going to get. Orrel turned out not to be the final springboard towards the capture of moscow, but the high water mark of the white army. Their supply lines now stretched for close to a thousand miles and their con t ensured the territory they cleared and occupied would be hostile rather than friendly. Now in the face of the advances made by the whites through central russia, the red high command improvised a whole new strategy to deal with it. In february, the estonians will be the first border state to conclude a