Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Battle of Bakhmach, was a battle between the Czechoslovak Legion in Russia and German forces occupying Ukraine. The battle lasted from March 8 to March 13, 1918 over the city of Bakhmach, today in Ukraine. The Legion managed to escape the encirclement. On March 3, 1918 Russia, controlled by the Bolsheviks, signed the Brest-Litovsk peace treaty with Germany in which it gave up, among others, control over Ukraine. Armies of Germany and Austria-Hungary started to occupy the land without much resistance.