"On July 6, 1918, troops of the Czech Legion, fighting on behalf of the Allies during World War I and for the cause of their own independent Czecho-Slovak state, declare the Russian port of Vladivostok, on the Pacific Ocean, to be an Allied protectorate, having gained control of the port and overthrown the local Bolshevik administration a week earlier....President Woodrow Wilson lauded the..." http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/czech-troops-take-russian-port-of-vladivostok-for-allies