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Next month he was at Opatow protecting Russian mobilization. When the division of which his brigade was a part was attacked by strong Austro-German forces, his general, Delsal, sent him orders to retreat to the right. Major General Mannerheim retired to the left, guarded the only road of retreat, saved the division. He got the order of St. George for that, with a special commendation for disobedience...
From 1915 to 1917, he was on the Bessarabian and Rumanian fronts. After the March Revolution in Russia, Disciplinarian Mannerheim began to have trouble with his younger officers, tried to punish them for insubordination, was overruled by the General Staff. No democrat, but an officer who had been close to the Tsar, he was in a ticklish position. Conveniently developing a sprained foot, he left the front on a doctor's orders, was met" in Odessa by a telegram relieving him of his command. On Dec. 6, 1917, the Finnish Diet declared that region's independence from Russia...
...White Terror. Accounts also differ as to the details of General Mannerheim's conduct in Finland's civil war, but the bold outlines are clear. When he reached Helsinki he found the city, and Finland, in chaos. Rioting had been going on since March. A Red Guard had sprung up in support of the Social Democrat Party, which had just lost its majority in the Diet. A White Guard was also being organized around officers of the old Imperial Army, had succeeded in getting arms & ammunition smuggled into the port of Vaasa, on the Gulf of Bothnia. Mannerheim...
Stiffened by a Jaeger Battalion from Germany (Finns who had joined the German Army), Mannerheim moved on Tampere, the Reds' northern stronghold. Although he had been promised more help from Germany (German troops this time), his reinforcements failed to arrive on schedule and he laid siege to Tampere alone. Helped by lack of discipline among the Reds, he took his time, encircled the city, waited for food to run low. When the Reds were thoroughly disorganized he stormed the city, took 10,000 prisoners...
Meanwhile 12,000 Germans under Gen eral Graf Rudiger von der Goltz had landed in Finland. They took Hanko for the Whites, moved on to Helsinki, pushing the Reds back toward the Karelian Isthmus. The Whites took Vüpuri, the Reds fled into Russia, and on May 16, 1918, Mannerheim rode into Helsinki in triumph...