At 3:30 in the morning on 3 July 1919, in the Strazdumuiža schoolhouse near Riga, an armistice was signed that halted fighting between forces under Estonian command and the German-commanded troops with the Baltic Landeswehr. Latvia also had a man at the table: Lieutenant Aleksandrs Šūlmanis, representing the 1st Latvian Separate Brigade. The text contained a blunt practical clause: hostilities were to stop at noon, and German officers and troops had to leave Riga by the evening of 5 July.

The Strazdumuiža Armistice followed the Battles of Cēsis and the tangled summer of 1919, when Latvia contained the Provisional Government’s forces, German troops, the Landeswehr, Estonian units and the North Latvian Brigade at the same time. After the armistice, parts of the North Latvian Brigade and Kārlis Ulmanis’s Provisional Government could return to Riga.