 On the morning of June 23, the Germans began a general retreat toward Riga.The Allies again insisted that the Germans withdraw their remaining troops from Latvia, and on July 3 intervened to impose an armistice between Estonia, Latvia, and the Landeswehr and Freikorps when the Latvians and Estonians were about to march into Riga.Major Bischoff created a German Legion from over a dozen Freikorps units and turned the units over to the West Russian Volunteer Army.