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
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.