Battle of Viipuri

Battle of Viipuri
	Part of the Finnish Civil War
	; Captured Reds in Viipuri.
Date	24–29 April 1918; (5 days)
Location	Viipuri, Finland
Result	White victory
Belligerents
Finnish Whites	Finnish Reds
Commanders and leaders
Ernst Löfström ; K. F. Wilkman ; Aarne Sihvo ; Eduard Ausfeld ; Ulrich von Coler	Oskar Rantala † ; Edvard Gylling ; Kullervo Manner ; Mikhail Svechnikov
Strength
18,500	5,000 in combat units
Casualties and losses
ca. 400 killed	ca. 500 killed in action ; ca. 800 executed ; 11,350 captured

The Battle of Viipuri was a 1918 Finnish Civil War battle, fought 24–29 April between the Finnish Whites against the Finnish Reds in Viipuri. Together with the Battle of Tampere and Battle of Helsinki, it was one of the three major urban battles of the Finnish Civil War. The battle is also remembered because of its bloody aftermath, as the Whites executed up to 400 non-aligned military personnel and civilians of Russian and associated ethnicities.

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