Greek generals

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 42. Chapters: Yannis Makriyannis, Ioannis Metaxas, Georgios Grivas, Alexander Ypsilantis, Richard Church, Theodoros Kolokotronis, Nikolaos Plastiras, Alexander Papagos, Theodoros Pangalos, Stylianos Gonatas, Georgios Karaiskakis, Christos Adamidis, Napoleon Zervas, Spyromilios, Georgios Kondylis, Dimitrios Makris, Ioannis Giagkos, Georgios Tsolakoglou, Dimitrios Grapsas, Kostas Botsaris, Georgios Stanotas, Nikolaos Trikoupis, Thrasyvoulos Tsakalotos, Viktor Dousmanis, Georgios Zoitakis, Dimitrios Ioannidis, Stylianos Pattakos, Konstantinos Sapountzakis, Vasos Mavrovouniotis, Alexandros Othonaios, Konstantinos Nider, Panagiotis Danglis, Anastasios Charalambis, Periklis Pierrakos-Mavromichalis, Konstantinos Moschopoulos, Odysseas Angelis, Dimitris Plapoutas, Konstantinos Skarlatos, Charalambos Katsimitros, Anastasios Papoulas, Nikolaos Zervas, Stylianos Kalfelis, Emmanouil Zymvrakakis, Konstantinos Miliotis-Komninos, Leonidas Paraskevopoulos, Staikos Staikopoulos, Grigorios Spandidakis, Nikolaos Douvas, Konstantinos Kallaris, Emmanouil Manousogiannakis, Dimitrios Matthaiopoulos, Georgios Hatzianestis, Antonios Mavromichalis, Konstantinos Damianos. Excerpt: General Yannis Makriyannis (¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ ¿a¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿, also anglicized as Ioannis, Ioannes and Makriyiannis, Makrygiannis, Makrygiannes, Macriyannis, etc.) (1797-1864) was a Greek merchant, military officer, politician and author, best known today for his Memoirs. Starting from humble origins, he joined the Greek struggle for independence, achieving the rank of general and leading his men to notable victories. Following Greek independence, he had a tumultuous public career, playing a prominent part in the granting of the first Constitution of the Kingdom of Greece and later being sentenced to death and pardoned. Despite his important contributions to the political life of the early Greek state, general Makriyannis is mostly remembered for his Memoirs. Aside from being a source of historical and cultural information about the period, this work has also been called a "monument of Modern Greek literature", as it is written in pure Demotic Greek. Indeed, its literary quality led Nobel laureate Giorgos Seferis to call Makriyannis one of the greatest masters of Modern Greek prose. Yannis Makriyannis was born Ioannis Triantaphyllou, son of a poor family in the village of Avoriti, in the vicinity of Doris. Makriyannis (Long John) was a nickname he acquired because of his height. His father, Dimitris Triantaphyllou, was killed in a clash with the forces of Ali Pasha. His family was forced to flee to Levadeia, where Makriyannis spent his childhood up to 1811. At age seven, he was given as a foster son to a wealthy man from Levadeia, but the menial labour and beatings he endured were, in his own words, "his death". Thus, in 1811 he left for Arta to stay with an acquaintance who maintained close relations with Ali Pasha. There, still a teenager, he was involved in trade and, according to his memoirs, became a wealthy man. His property amounted to 40,000 piastres. According to Sphyroeras, he probably joined the Filiki Etaireia, a secret anti-Ottoman society, in 1820. In March 1821 he