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Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel (Врангель, Пётр Николаевич in Russian) ( August 15, 1878 — April 25, 1928), baron, one of the leaders of the counterrevolution in Southern Russia, Lieutenant General (1917).After graduating from the Institute of Mining Engineering (1901), Wrangel volunteered for the Cavalry Regiment and in 1902 he was promoted to an officer's rank. Wrangel took part in the Russo-Japanese War. In 1906, he became a member of the punitive expedition forces under General A.N.Orlov in the Baltic region. In 1910, Wrangel graduated from the General Staff Academy. He was a commanderCommander is a military rank used in many navies but not generally in armies or air forces. It is below Captain and above Lieutenant-Commander. Formerly the rank was Master and Commander . A Commander in the U. Navy commands a Frigate, Destroyer, Submarin of a cavalry unitThe word unit means any of several things: One, the first natural number. The natural or usual or smallest measure of something, of which there are multiples and of which there may be fractions. In most physical contexts, for example science and engineeri during the World War IWorld War I (also known as the First World War , the Great War the War of the Nations and the "War to End All Wars") was a world conflict occurring from 1914 to 1918. No previous conflict had mobilized so many soldiers, or involved so many in the field of. After the October RevolutionThis article is about the October Revolution in Russia. See October Revolution (disambiguation) for other meanings. The October Revolution also known as the Bolshevik Revolution, was the second phase of the Russian Revolution, the first having been instig Wrangel moved to CrimeaThe Crimea (officially Autonomous Republic of Crimea Ukrainian transliteration: Avtonomna Respublika Krym Ukrainian: Russian: is a peninsula and an autonomous republic of Ukraine on the northern coast of the Black Sea. It was called Tauric or Scythian Che and in August of 1918 became a member of the White Volunteer ArmyThe Volunteer Army in Russian, or Dobrovolcheskaya armiya) was a counterrevolutionary army in South Russia during the Russian Civil War of 1918- 1920. The Volunteer Amy (VA) began forming in November- December of 1917 by General Mikhail Alekseev in Novoch. First, he commanded a Cavalry DivisionThis article is about the arithmetic operation. For other uses, see Division (disambiguation). In mathematics, especially elementary arithmetic, division is an arithmetic operation which is the reverse operation of multiplication and sometimes can be inte, then in spring of 1919 - the CaucasusThe Caucasus is a region in eastern Europe and western Asia between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea which includes the Caucasus mountains and surrounding lowlands. It is occasionally considered part of Central Asia. The highest peak is Elbrus (5642m), w Army, and then in December, 1919 and January, 1920 - the whole Volunteer Army. After a conflict with Anton Denikin, Wrangel was forced to go abroad. On April 4, 1920 he was elected Commander-in-Chief of the so called Russian army in Crimea (see Wrangelevschina ). After defeat in Northern Tavria and Crimea, Wrangel with a major part of his army fled from Russia on November 14, 1920. In 1924, he established the so called Russian All-military Union (Русский общевоинский союз in Russian). Wrangel wrote memoirs called "Notes" (Записки), published in the White Cause magazine (Белое дело) in Berlin in 1928.
Wrangel, Pyotr Nikolayevich
