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. 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.

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