On a white horse, with flags leading the way, Colonel Jorģis Zemitāns brought the Northern Latvian Brigade into Riga on 6 July 1919. After the Battles of Cēsis and the Armistice of Strazdumuiža, the “northerners” met the “southerners” in the capital; where the Freedom Monument stands today, a parade of Latvian troops was held. Within days, the Provisional Government returned from the Saratov, and the two brigades were brought together as one Latvian Army.

This event belongs to the tense July of 1919 in the Latvian War of Independence, when German military pressure had been pushed back but the state was still far from secure. In Riga, two Latvian military cores formed under very different conditions met: the Northern Latvian Brigade and the Southern Latvian Brigade.