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  Aunus expedition - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Aunus expedition was an attempt by Finnish volunteers to occupy parts of East Karelia in 1919, during the Russian Civil War.
During the same time the plans for the Aunus expedition were prepared and the Jaeger-Major Gunnar von Herzen was chosen as the commander of the troops.
The only result from the expedition was that the parish of Porajärvi declared on June 6 that it wished to join Finland.
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 Viena expedition - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Viena expedition was a military expedition by Finnish volunteer forces to "liberate" White Karelia (or Vienan Karjala in Finnish) from the Bolsheviks in March 1918.
The situation of the Viena expedition began to deteriorate.
After the Viena expedition, the parish of Repola in East Karelia had held a vote to join Finland, but Finland gave up her claims on East Karelia in the Treaty of Tartu in 1920.
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 Viena expedition: Encyclopedia topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
The Viena expedition was a military expedtition by Finnish (Finnish: The official language of Finland; belongs to the Baltic Finnic family of languages) volunteer forces to liberate White Karelia (White Karelia: :this article is about karelia, the land of the karelians, in its broadest meaning....
After the Viena expedition, the parish of Repola (Repola: repola is a parish in the republic of karelia by the finnish border....
See also: Finnish Civil War (Finnish Civil War: more facts about this subject), Aunus expedition (Aunus expedition: the aunus expedition was an attempt by finnish volunteers to occupy parts of east karelia...
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 List of Finnish wars: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
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The Aunus expedition (The aunus expedition was an attempt by finnish volunteers to occupy parts of east karelia in 1919, during...)
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 North Russia Campaign - Open Encyclopedia
The North Russia Campaign (also known as the Northern Russian Expedition or the Allied Intervention in North Russia) was part of the Allied Intervention in Russia after the October Revolution.
The intervention brought about the involvement of foreign troops in the Russian Civil War on the side of the losing White movement.
In July 1918, against the advice of his War Department, President Wilson finally agreed to a limited participation in the Campaign by 5,000 U.S. troops that were hastily organized as the American North Russia Expeditionary Force, which also came to be known as the Polar Bear Expedition.
www.openencyclopedia.net /index.php/North_Russia_Campaign   (1781 words)

  
 East Karelia, 1918-1922   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Apparently, this was not adopted, because Paskov notes that the symbols adopted in 1920 are «still the official symbol of Karelian organizations in Finland up to the present and lately both symbols [arms and flag, JOE] have become current in Karelia too.», p.
The provisional government of Aunus was set up when Finnish volunteer forces advanced into the area in April 1919.
In an account of the Finnish volunteer expedition into the Aunus area, written by one of the expedition's leaders Major von Herzen, we find only two instances when flags are mentioned.
www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/ru-12h.html   (1092 words)

  
 Aunus Expedition - Aunus Expedition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
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In February 1919 Mannerheim made clear to the Western powers and the White Army that Finland would attack the Bolsheviks in St. Petersburg if it would receive material and moral support.
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 East Karelia (Russia), 1918-1930   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
However, autonomous East Karelia [both current and soviet] is just a small part of Russian Karelia, known as White Sea Karelia, or in other words, the area between the White Sea and the Finnish border.
The area to the south of White Sea Karelia, between lakes Onega and Lagoda, is known as Aunus Karelia, named after the town with the Finnish name Aunus (in Russian: Olonets).
That was the end of the Aunus government.
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 :::► Dictionary of Meaning www.mauspfeil.net ◄:::   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Historically the union began from Birger Jarl's expedition in Central Finland of 1249.
Finland-Swedish Swedish became the dominant language of administration and education; Finnish language Finnish chiefly a language for the peasantry and clergy, considered useful mainly for printing religious literature.
The independence was approved by Bolshevist Russia, but the following civil wars Russian Civil War in Russia and Finnish Civil War in Finland, and nationalist activism activist expeditions (called Heimosodat (Finland) Heimosodat, "tribal wars", in Finnish), for example Viena expedition to White Karelia and Aunus expedition to Aunus, complicated the relations.
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 Continuation War
After the Finnish declaration of independence, voices arose advocating the annexation of East Karelia to rescue it from oppression.
This led to a few excursions to the area (Viena expedition and Aunus expedition), but these were unsuccessful.
Finland unsuccessfuly raised the question of East Karelia several times in the League of Nations.
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 The world's top aunus expedition websites   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
In February 1918 Mannerheim wrote his famous "sword scabbard order of the day", in which he said that he would not put his sword into the scabbard until East Karelia was free.
The souther group advanced to Lotinanpelto in just three days, but was pressed back behind River Tuulos by Bolshevik troops.
At this time it became obvious that there wasn't enough troops to complete the goals of the expedition.
www.websbiggest.com /dir-wiki.cfm?cat=aunus_expedition&tab=edit   (693 words)

  
 About Me
At the same time, an international treaty was concluded on the neutral status of Åland, under which it was prohibited to place military headquarters or forces on the islands.
Directly after the Civil War there were many incidents along the border between Finland and Soviet Russia, such as the Aunus expedition and the Pork mutiny.
Relations with the Soviets were improved after the Treaty of Tartu in 1920, in which Finland gained Petsamo, but gave up the claims on East Karelia.
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 Articles - Finland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Historically (more documented), the union began upon Birger Jarl´s expedition to Finland in 1249.
Swedish became the dominant language of administration and education; Finnish chiefly a language for the peasantry, clergy and local courts in predominantly Finnish-speaking areas.
The independence was approved by Bolshevist Russia but the civil wars that followed in Russia and in Finland and activist expeditions (see Heimosodat), including the ones to White Karelia and Aunus, complicated relations.
www.pointgathering.com /articles/Finland   (4018 words)

  
 FINNISH ARMY 1918 - 1945: Infantry Guns & Mountain Guns
Three of the guns were also shortly used by Finnish volunteers of Aunus Carelia Expedition and were returned in very poor condition.
The guns had not been in good shape to begin with and especially the ones returned by Aunus Expedition came back in terrible condition.
Eight of the guns (which were in bit better shape than the others) were given to Suojeluskunta units of Tampere and Viipuri presumably in 1923 and remained in their use until 1931.
www.jaegerplatoon.net /Infantry_guns.htm   (4572 words)

  
 Draxblog III: When Discovery Channel Killed History
First, the professor failed to explain just _how_ Mannerheim could have both managed to muster the support for his plan as well as retain hist political power.
2) The proposed Allied expedition to Scandinavia in support of Finland in the Winter of 1939-1940.
Polvinen presented the old enthusiastic interpretation that the arrival of the Allied expeditionary force would have led to a war between the Western Powers and the USSR, thus changing the Second World War beyond recognition.
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 Viena Expedition - Viena Expedition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
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 FINNISH ARMY 1918 - 1945: ARTILLERY PART I
The also guns saw plenty of use with Finnish military also later.
Two guns were used by Finnish volunteers of Aunus Carelia expedition in 1919 in Soviet Carelia.
Another four guns were sold to newly established Estonian State and were used by 2
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