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Battle of Tampere
Major battle of the Finnish Civil War / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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]
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Part of the Finnish Civil War | |||||||
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16,000 400 Swedish volunteers | 14,000 | ||||||
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820 killed |
2,000 killed or executed[1] 10,000–11,000 captured[1] |
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