The year-long Soviet occupation and oppression of the Baltic states at the beginning of World War II produced volunteers for Latvian and Estonian Waffen-SS units.

Approximately 25, 000 men served in the Estonian SS division ( with thousands more conscripted into the " Police Front " battalions and border guard units ).

The Estonian MP organization was created in 1994 and is today divided into tactical ( patrol ) and investigative units

On June 19 the Iron Division and Landeswehr units launched an attack to capture areas around Cēsis ( Wenden ), the Baltische Landeswehr continued its advance towards the Estonian coast preparatory for a push on Petrograd.

The defeat of Germany in World War I in November 1918, followed by the defeat in 1919 of the Baltische Landeswehr and German Freikorps units of General Rüdiger von der Goltz in Latvia by the 3rd Estonian Division and North Latvian Brigade, rendered the United Baltic Duchy irrelevant.

He was the most highly decorated Estonian military officer in the course of the Second World War, serving in various German military units against the armed forces of the Soviet Union.

Soldiers who fought in units under his command were colloquially referred to as " fox cubs " ( Rebane translates to " fox " in Estonian ).

The United States officials have declared the Baltic Waffen SS units not to be hostile to the Government of the United States and the units were " considered as separate and distinct in purpose, ideology, activities and qualification from the regular SS According to Andrew Mollo, a British authority on the SS: " the Estonian SS were very different from other SS units: Estonia had been occupied by the Red Army in 1940, the Estonians fought for the independence of their country and were brought under the SS umbrella against their will.

It is currently the largest military formation among the Estonian Defence League infantry units.

Estonia showed interest to obtain another 30 units in 2008, but abandoned the deal, because the asked price was too high and the use of vehicles would have been restricted to Estonian territory only.

On the northern wing of the Soviet westward offensive of 1918 – 1919, on the 28th of November 1918, the 6th Red Rifle Division attacked units of the Estonian Defence League ( consisting partly of secondary school students ) and the German Infanterie-Regiment Nr.

Thus, the battalion belonged to the first fighting units of the Estonian Army, demonstrated and maintained staunch allegiance and loyalty to authority vested in the Republic.

In January 2002, following changes in the structure of Estonian defence units, Tapa again became the home of a military base.

These units were supported by units of the uniformed German Order Police ( Orpo ) and auxiliaries of volunteers ( Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, and Ukrainian ).

From February 1916, Päts served as an officer in Tallinn and in July 1917, he was elected as Chairman of the Supreme Committee of Estonian Soldiers, where he actively worked to form Estonian units in the Imperial Army.

Southern Estonian partisan units were yet again summoned in August 1941 under the name of Estonian Omakaitse.

A large army led the Master of the Order proceeded immediately towards Reval, seeking out and engaging smaller Estonian units on the way.

The 4th SS Volunteer Panzergrenadier Brigade Nederland started digging in on the left ( north ) flank of the Tannenberg Line, units of the 20th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS ( 1st Estonian ) in the centre, and the 11th SS Volunteer Panzergrenadier Division Nordland on the right ( south ) flank.

The Estonian units against them ran out of ammunition.

The election process saw the creation and reorganization of Estonian national parties.

The town saw fighting during the Estonian War of Independence.

' I told this to Keres who, with the nearest approach to acerbity I ever saw him show, said: ' No, it was a true Estonian game.

The 1950s and 60s also saw the publication of Herbert Tampere's Eesti rahvalaule viisidega ( Estonian folk songs with melodies ), a collection of folk songs.

He was one of the leaders of the centre-left Estonian Labour Party, that saw its biggest support after the 1919 and 1920 elections.

At first, his actions saw little effect and he was criticised from both left-and right-wing parties, but eventually the Estonian mark stabilized, integrating the Estonian economy more with Europe.

The early twentieth century saw groups of Estonian and then Finnish settlers moving to homesteads to the south and west of the fledgling settlement at Sylvan Lake.

As a military sidearm, the pistols saw service in various colonial wars, as well as World War I, the Estonian War of Independence, the Spanish Civil War, the Chinese Civil War and World War II.

The second half of February saw the Estonian southward advance capture Salacgrīva and Alūksne.

Oliver Bierhoff came close to adding a third for Milan in the second half, but saw his one-on-one effort denied by the Estonian goalkeeper.

November 2007, saw the approval of a two-year contract for new head coach Tarmo Rüütli, who had overseen the national team in the 1999 – 2000 season, with this being the last time the team last took on an Estonian coach, as Pijpers was the first of three foreign coaches between 2000 and 2007.

The Estonian rock music scene saw its beginnings in the mid-sixties during Nikita Khrushchev's thaw in the Soviet Union and the rise of British bands all over the world.

A punk survivor from the 1980s-Vennaskond saw mainstream popularity and gained a large following, becoming arguably the most influential Estonian rock band ever.

In 1906, the National Progress Party saw great support and Tõnisson was among the four Estonian politicians to be elected to the First State Duma in 1906, where he joined the Autonomist-Federalist group.

The 7000-strong 22nd Estonian Territorial Rifle Corps got heavily beaten in the battles around Porkhov during the German invasion in summer 1941, as 2000 were killed or wounded in action, and 4500 surrendered.

As the division was still nowhere near formed, von Scholz was sent back to the front to take command of first 1 SS Infantry Brigade, attached to Army Group Centre then 2 SS Infantry Brigade composed of mostly Estonian volunteers and in action under Army Group North.

Category: Estonian military personnel killed in action

* 1944 – World War II: The Battle of Narva ends with a combined German – Estonian force successfully defending Narva, Estonia, from invading Soviet troops.

According to an Amnesty International report from 2009: " In June, the Estonian Security Police Board published its annual report which made serious allegations against the Legal Information Centre for Human Rights ( LICHR ), an NGO promoting and defending the rights of those belonging to linguistic minorities.

The 72nd Rifle Division assaulted the II. Battalion, 3rd Estonian Regiment which were defending the northern flank.

* FC Narva Trans, Estonian football team

Narva is situated in the eastern extreme point of Estonia, 200 km to the east from the Estonian capital Tallinn and 130 km southwest from Saint Petersburg.

The Estonian part of the Narva Reservoir lies mostly within the territory of Narva, to the southwest of city center.

Votes ( also called Vod ) are a people of Votia in Ingria, the part of modern day northwestern Russia that is roughly southwest of Saint Petersburg and east of the Estonian border-town of Narva.

The Estonian division played a significant role in the Battle of Narva and the Battle of Emajõgi, holding back the Soviet re-occupation of Estonia until the Soviet Tallinn Offensive, September 1944 while suffering heavy casualties.

In January 1945 a small part of the Estonian SSR to the east of the River Narva with the town of Jaanilinn ( now Ivangorod ) was transferred to the Russian SFSR and incorporated into Leningrad Oblast.

* 1944 The displacement of the majority ethnic Estonian population from the Estonian city of Narva by Soviet occupation authorities.

Estonian Bolsheviks declared the Estonian Workers ' Commune in Narva.

In positions along the Narva River the Estonian 1st Division and their allied White Russian Northern Corps repelled the 7th Red Army's attacks.

The Narva ( Estonian: Narva jõgi ) ( or Narova ) is a river flowing into the Baltic Sea, the largest river in Estonia.

There are a few more small villages on the upper section of the river, for example Permisküla and Kuningaküla on the Estonian side and Omuti on the Russian side, but up to the city of Narva the shores of the river are mostly forested or marshy.

Narva flows into Narva Bay near the Estonian town of Narva-Jõesuu, third largest settlement on the river after Narva and Ivangorod.

In 1944 the former Estonian territory east of the river was transferred to Russian SFSR and Narva was thus established as the eastern border of Estonian SSR, an internal border within USSR.

On 28 November 1918, Soviet Russian forces captured Narva, which resulted the Estonian War of Independence.

* February – July – Battle of Narva – Soviet Leningrad-Novgorod Strategic Offensive brought to a halt by German forces including Estonian conscript formations