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MIAOULIS ANDREAS 2 Euro 🅰️ GREECE 1821 2021 🅰️ Grece Grecia Griechenland

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    1821-2021.
    200 years from the Greek revolution.
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    Andreas Vokos
    Drawing by
    Karl Krazeisen
    Native name
    Ανδρέας Βώκος
    Nickname(s)
    Miaoulis
    Born
    1765
    [1]
    Hydra
    ,
    Ottoman Empire
    Died
    11 June 1835 (aged 70)
    Athens
    ,
    Greece
    Allegiance
    Greece
    Rank
    Admiral
    Battles/wars
    Battle of Nauplia
    Battle of Gerontas
    Andreas Miaoulis. Drawing by
    Giovanni Boggi
    Andreas Vokos
    , nicknamed
    Miaoulis
    (
    Greek
    :
    Ανδρέας "Μιαούλης" Βώκος
    ; 1765 – 24 June 1835), was a Greek
    admiral
    and
    politician
    who commanded Greek naval forces during the
    Greek War of Independence
    (1821–1829).
    Biography
    Miaoulis was born on the island of
    Hydra
    in a family of Euboean origin, namely from the town of Fylla in
    Euboea
    .
    [2]
    He was known among his fellow islanders as a trader in corn who had gained wealth and made a popular use of his money. He had been a merchant captain, and was chosen to lead the naval forces of the islands when they rose against the
    government of the Sultan
    . Miaoulis contributed in every way possible to the cause of the resistance against the Turks. He expended the money he had made from his wheat-shipping business during the
    Napoleonic Wars
    .
    [3]
    Between May 1825 and January 1826,
    [1]
    Miaoulis led the Greeks to victory over the Turks in skirmishes off Modon, Cape Matapan, Suda, and Cape Papas.
    [1]
    Role in the Greek War of Independence
    Flag used by Miaoulis during the early stages of the
    Greek War of Independence
    Statue in
    Hydra
    commemorating Andreas Miaoulis.
    The islanders had enjoyed some measure of exemption from the worst excesses of the Turkish officials, but suffered severely from the conscription raised to man the Turkish ships; and though they seemed to be peculiarly open to attack by the Sultan's forces from the sea, they took an early and active part in the rising. As early as 1822 Miaoulis was appointed
    navarch
    , (
    Greek
    :
    Ναύαρχος
    ) or
    admiral
    , of the swarm of small vessels which formed the insurgent fleet. He commanded the expedition sent to take revenge for the massacre of
    Chios
    in the same year. He was victorious at the
    Battle of Nauplia
    in September.
    [1]
    In 1824, after the conquest of
    Psara
    by the Turks, he commanded the Greek forces which prevented the further progress of the Sultan's fleet, though at the cost of the loss of many fire ships and men. But in the same year he was unable to prevent the
    Egyptian
    forces from occupying
    Navarino
    , though he harassed them with some success. In 1825 he succeeded in carrying stores and reinforcements into
    Missolonghi
    , when it was
    besieged for the third time
    , though he could not avert its fall.
    [1]
    In order to save Missolonghi, he attempted to disrupt the sea communications of the Egyptian forces. In this he failed owing to the enormous disproportion of the two squadrons in the siege and strength of the ships.
    [1]
    As the war went on, the naval power of the Greeks diminished, partly owing to the penury of their treasury and partly to the growth of
    piracy
    in the anarchy of the Eastern
    Mediterranean
    . He continued to be the naval chief of the Greeks until the former
    Royal Navy
    officer
    Thomas Cochrane
    entered their service in 1827. Miaoulis then retired in order to leave the British officer free to act as commander.
    [1]
    Triumphant welcome to Andreas Miaoulis in Hydra
    by Aimilios Prosalentis.
    When Miaoulis retired to make room for Cochrane, the conduct of the struggle had really passed into the hands of the
    Great Powers
    . When independence had been obtained, Miaoulis in his old age was entangled in the civil conflicts of his country, as an opponent of
    Capodistrias
    and the
    Russian Party
    : he seized some of the principal ships of the Greek fleet at
    Poros
    in August 1831, including the
    Hellas
    , and destroyed them during the counter-attack of the Russian fleet.
    [
    citation needed
    ]
    He was one of the deputation sent to invite
    King Otto
    to accept the crown of Greece, and was made rear-admiral and then vice-admiral by him.
    [
    citation needed
    ]
    Otto also awarded him with the Grand Cross of the
    Order of the Redeemer
    .
    [4]
    Miaoulis died on 24 June 1835 at
    Athens
    . He was buried in
    Piraeus
    near the tomb of
    Themistocles
    , the founder of the ancient Athenian Navy. His heart rests in an urn at the Ministry of Commercial Navy. The
    Hellenic Navy
    named a
    cruiser
    , the
    Navarchos Miaoulis
    , after him in 1879.
    [
    citation needed
    ]
    His son,
    Athanasios
    , was a high-ranking military officer who served as
    Prime Minister of Greece
    between 1857 and 1862.
    [
    citation needed
    ]
    A big festival, called
    Miaoulia
    , takes place in Hydra every year the weekend closest to 21 June, to honor Admiral Miaoulis, a most important man of the Greek Revolution in 1821
    Greek War of Independence
    Clockwise:
    The camp of
    Georgios Karaiskakis
    at
    Phaliro
    , the burning of an Ottoman frigate by a Greek
    fire ship
    , the
    Battle of Navarino
    and
    Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt
    at the
    Third Siege of Missolonghi
    Date
    21 February 1821 – 12 September 1829
    [1]
    (8 years, 6 months and 3 weeks)
    Location
    Greece
    Result
    Greek independence:
    Establishment of the
    First Hellenic Republic
    (1822–1832)
    Start of the
    Russo-Turkish War (1828–1829)
    London Protocol
    Treaty of Constantinople
    Establishment of the
    Kingdom of Greece
    (1832)
    Start of the
    First Egyptian-Ottoman War
    Territorial
    changes
    The
    Peloponnese
    ,
    Saronic Islands
    ,
    Cyclades
    ,
    Sporades
    and
    Continental Greece
    ceded to the independent Greek state
    Crete
    ceded to
    Egypt
    Belligerents
    Before 1822:
    Filiki Eteria
    Greek
    Revolutionaries
    Sacred Band (Ieros Lohos)
    After 1822:
    Hellenic Republic
    Supported by:
    United Kingdom
    Romanian Revolutionaries
    Russian Empire
    Kingdom of France
    Serb volunteers
    Montenegrins volunteers
    Ottoman Empire
    Egypt
    Algeria
    Tripolitania
    Tunis
    Commanders and leaders
    Alexandros Ypsilantis
    (
    Commander-in-Chief
    )
    Demetrios Ypsilantis
    Ioannis Kapodistrias
    Theodoros Kolokotronis
    Alexandros Mavrokordatos
    Germanos III
    Petros Mavromichalis
    Georgios Karaiskakis

    Athanasios Diakos
    Grigorios Papaflessas

    Markos Botsaris

    Yannis Makriyannis
    Nikitas Stamatelopoulos
    Emmanouel Pappas
    Odysseas Androutsos
    Andreas Miaoulis
    Constantinos Kanaris
    Laskarina Bouboulina

    Richard Church
    Vasos Mavrovouniotis
    Hadži-Prodan

    European support
    :
    Nicholas I
    Lodewijk Heiden
    Edward Codrington
    Henri de Rigny
    Nicolas Joseph Maison
    Mahmud II
    (
    Commander-in-Chief
    )
    Nasuhzade Ali Pasha

    Omer Vrioni
    Mahmud Dramali Pasha
    Kara Mehmed
    Hursid Pasha

    Husrev Pasha
    Mustafa Pasha Bushatli
    Reşid Mehmed Pasha
    Mehmed Selim Pasha
    Egyptian support
    :
    Muhammad Ali Pasha
    Ibrahim Pasha
    Ismael Gibraltar

    The
    Greek War of Independence
    , also known as the
    Greek Revolution
    (
    Greek
    :
    Ελληνική Επανάσταση
    ,
    Elliniki Epanastasi
    ; referred to by
    Greeks
    in the 19th century as simply the Αγώνας,
    Agonas
    , "
    Struggle
    ";
    Ottoman
    : يونان عصياني
    Yunan İsyanı
    , "
    Greek Uprising
    "), was a successful
    war of independence
    waged by Greek revolutionaries against the
    Ottoman Empire
    between 1821 and 1830. The Greeks were later assisted by Great Britain,
    France
    and Russia, while the Ottomans were aided by their North African vassals, particularly the
    eyalet
    of
    Egypt
    . The war led to the formation of
    modern Greece
    . The revolution is celebrated by Greeks around the world as
    independence day
    on 25 March.
    Greece came under Ottoman rule in the 15th century, in the decades before and after the
    fall of Constantinople
    .
    [2]
    During the following centuries, there were sporadic but unsuccessful
    Greek uprisings
    against Ottoman rule.
    [3]
    In 1814, a secret organization called
    Filiki Eteria
    (Society of Friends) was founded with the aim of liberating Greece, encouraged by the revolutionary fervor gripping Europe in that period. The Filiki Eteria planned to launch revolts in the
    Peloponnese
    , the
    Danubian Principalities
    , and
    Constantinople
    itself. The insurrection was planned for 25 March 1821 (on the Julian Calendar), the Orthodox Christian
    Feast of the Annunciation
    . However, the plans of Filiki Eteria were discovered by the Ottoman authorities, forcing the revolution to start earlier. The first revolt began on 6 March/21 February 1821 in the
    Danubian Principalities
    , but it was soon put down by the Ottomans. The events in the north urged the Greeks in the Peloponnese (
    Morea
    ) into action and on 17 March 1821, the
    Maniots
    were first to declare war. In September 1821, the Greeks under the leadership of
    Theodoros Kolokotronis
    captured
    Tripolitsa
    . Revolts in
    Crete
    ,
    Macedonia
    , and
    Central Greece
    broke out, but were eventually suppressed. Meanwhile, makeshift Greek fleets achieved success against the
    Ottoman navy
    in the
    Aegean Sea
    and prevented Ottoman reinforcements from arriving by sea.
    Tensions soon developed among different Greek factions, leading to two consecutive civil wars. The
    Ottoman Sultan
    called in his vassal
    Muhammad Ali of Egypt
    , who agreed to send his son
    Ibrahim Pasha
    to Greece with an army to suppress the revolt in return for territorial gains. Ibrahim landed in the Peloponnese in February 1825 and brought most of the peninsula under Egyptian control by the end of that year. The town of
    Missolonghi
    fell in April 1826 after a
    year-long siege
    by the Turks. Despite a
    failed invasion of Mani
    , Athens also fell and the revolution looked all but lost.
    At that point, the three Great Powers—Russia, Britain and France—decided to intervene, sending their naval squadrons to Greece in 1827. Following news that the combined Ottoman–Egyptian fleet was going to attack the island of
    Hydra
    , the allied European fleets intercepted the Ottoman navy at
    Navarino
    . After a tense week-long standoff, the
    Battle of Navarino
    led to the destruction of the Ottoman–Egyptian fleet and turned the tide in favor of the revolutionaries. In 1828 the Egyptian army withdrew under pressure of a
    French expeditionary force
    . The Ottoman garrisons in the Peloponnese surrendered, and the Greek revolutionaries proceeded to retake central Greece. Russia invaded the Ottoman Empire and forced it to accept Greek autonomy in the
    Treaty of Adrianople (1829)
    . After nine years of war, Greece was finally recognized as an independent state under the
    London Protocol
    of February 1830. Further negotiations in 1832 led to the
    London Conference
    and the
    Treaty of Constantinople
    ; these defined the final borders of the new state and established
    Prince Otto
    of Bavaria as the first king of Greece.