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The siege of Missolonghi may refer to one of three different sieges of the town of Missolonghi during the Greek War of Independence:

  • The First Siege of Missolonghi (1822)
  • The Second Siege of Missolonghi (1823)
  • The Third Siege of Missolonghi (1825–26), leading to the fall of the town. This is the most famous of the three, and typically an unqualified reference to the "Siege of Missolonghi" will be about it

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Third siege of Missolonghi

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Third Siege of Missolonghi (Greek: Τρίτη Πολιορκία του Μεσσολογίου, often erroneously referred to as the second siege) was fought in the Greek War of Independence...

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Second siege of Missolonghi

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Siege of Missolonghi was the second attempt by Ottoman forces to capture the strategically located port town of Missolonghi during the third year of the...

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Siege of Missolonghi

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siege of Missolonghi may refer to one of three different sieges of the town of Missolonghi during the Greek War of Independence: The First Siege of Missolonghi...

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First siege of Missolonghi

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First Siege of Missolonghi (Greek: Πρώτη πολιορκία του Μεσολογγίου) was an attempt by Ottoman forces to capture the strategically located port town of Missolonghi...

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Missolonghi

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 'Sacred Town of Missolonghi'). Missolonghi is known as the site of a dramatic siege during the Greek War of Independence, and of the death of poet Lord Byron...

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Omer Vrioni

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the Battle of the inn of Gravia on 8 May 1821. In late 1822, he and Mehmed Reshid Pasha joined forces to besiege the town of Missolonghi. The town was...

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Greece on the Ruins of Missolonghi

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inspired by the Third Siege of Missolonghi by the Ottoman forces in 1826, during which many people of the city after the long-time siege (almost a year) decided...

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Georgios Karaiskakis

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leader of Karaiskakis' men. Karaiskakis' reputation grew during the middle and latter stages of the war. He helped lift the second siege of Missolonghi in...

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Greek War of Independence

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of the people who remained behind decided to blow themselves up with gunpowder rather than be enslaved. The news that the Third Siege of Missolonghi had...

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Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt

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powers. He defeated the Greeks in the open field, and though the siege of Missolonghi proved costly to his own troops and to the Ottoman forces who operated...

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Military history of Greece

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Dervenakia First Siege of Missolonghi Second Siege of Missolonghi Battle of Vasilika Ottoman–Egyptian invasion of Mani Epirus Revolt of 1854 Cretan Revolt...

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Kitsos Tzavelas

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became the head of his family and fara (minor Albanian clan). He settled his clan in Missolonghi. He was initially under the patronage of Georgios Karaiskakis...

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Markos Botsaris

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general of the Greek revolutionary army and hero of the Greek War of Independence. He played a key role in relieving the First Siege of Missolonghi in 1822–1823...

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Lord Byron

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first and second sieges of Missolonghi. His one child conceived within marriage, Ada Lovelace, was a founding figure in the field of computer programming...

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Impalement

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last Siege of Missolonghi, in 1826, the Ottoman besiegers offered opportunity for capitulation for the besieged, while they also sent a message of consequences...

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Nikitaras

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Piraeus. He is especially famous for his words during the Third Siege of Missolonghi. When he arrived in the city with supplies, soldiers, who had not...

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List of wars involving Greece

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This is a list of known wars, conflicts, battles/sieges, missions and operations involving ancient Greek city states and kingdoms, Magna Graecia, other...

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Alexandros Mavrokordatos

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this disaster somewhat by his successful resistance to the First Siege of Missolonghi (November 1822 – January 1823). At Peta, Mavokordatos wanted a victory...

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Greece

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great siege of Corfu by the Turks in 1537, Angelocastro ... and After a siege lasting a year the invaders were finally driven away by the defenders of the...

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Dimitrios Makris

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Ottoman Turks including the Third Siege of Missolonghi. During the siege Dimitrios Makris married Eupraxia, daughter of the city's notable Samos Razi-Kotsikas...

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Spyromilios

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the ongoing Greek War of Independence. In August 1825 he was fighting in the Third Siege of Missolonghi, at the head of a group of 250 armed Himariotes...

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Siege of Shkodra

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siege of Shkodra took place from May 1478 to April 1479 as a confrontation between the Ottoman Empire and the Venetians together with the League of Lezhe...

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Andreas Miaoulis

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reinforcements into Missolonghi, when it was besieged for the third time, though he could not avert its fall. In order to save Missolonghi, he attempted to...

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Arkadi Monastery

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that the drama of Arkadi was no different than the Destruction of Psara and the Third Siege of Missolonghi. He described the tragedy of Arkadi: In writing...

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Tousias Botsaris

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the leader of the Legislative Corps in Nafplio. He also took part in the siege of Messolonghi where he excelled in the battles fought there. Later he followed...

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