Battle of Tampere

Battle of Tampere
Part of the Finnish Civil War

The Tammela neighborhood after the battle
Date15 March – 6 April 1918
(3 weeks and 1 day)
Location
Tampere, Finland
Result Finnish White victory
Belligerents
Finnish Whites
Swedish Brigade		 Finnish Reds
Commanders and leaders
C. G. E. Mannerheim
Hjalmar Frisell		 Hugo Salmela †
Georgy Bulatsel Executed
Ali Aaltonen
Verner Lehtimäki
Strength
16,000
400 Swedish volunteers		 14,000
Casualties and losses
820 killed 2,000 killed or executed[1]
10,000–11,000 captured[1]
Fallen Red Guard fighters

The Battle of Tampere was a 1918 Finnish Civil War battle, fought in Tampere, Finland from 15 March to 6 April between the Whites and the Reds. It is the most famous and the heaviest of all the Finnish Civil War battles.[2][3] Today it is particularly remembered for its bloody aftermath as the Whites executed hundreds of capitulated Reds and took 11,000 prisoners who ended up in the Kalevankangas camp.[4]

  1. ^ a b Jaques, Tony (2007). Dictionary of Battles and Sieges: P-Z. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 993. ISBN 978-0-313-33539-6.
  2. ^ YLE: Suomalaiset kuvaavat sotien jälkiä kaupungeissa – katso kuvat ja tarinat tutuilta kulmilta (in Finnish)
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference pesonen was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ Jalonen, Jussi (8 October 2014). "Battle of Tampere". International Encyclopedia of the First World War. Retrieved 17 December 2016.