Battle of Tampere

Battle of Tampere
	Part of the Finnish Civil War
	; The Tammela neighborhood after the battle
Date	15 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 ; Ali Aaltonen; Verner Lehtimäki
Strength
16,000; 400 Swedish volunteers	14,000
Casualties and losses
820 killed	2,000 killed or executed ; 10,000–11,000 captured

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 placed in the Kalevankangas camp.^[4]

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

[Jaques2007-1] 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)

[pesonen-3] Cite error: The named reference pesonen was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[jalonen-4] Jalonen, Jussi (8 October 2014). "Battle of Tampere". International Encyclopedia of the First World War. Retrieved 17 December 2016.

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