Anastasios Tsamados
Admiral Anastasios Tsamados | |
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 A portrait of Anastasios Tsamados by Dionysios Tsokos | |
| Native name | Αναστάσιος Τσαμαδός |
| Born | 1774 Hydra, Ottoman Empire (now Greece) |
| Died | 1825 Sphacteria, First Hellenic Republic |
| Allegiance |  First Hellenic Republic |
| Service/ |  Hellenic Navy |
| Rank | Admiral (Posthumous) |
| Commands held | Aris |
| Battles/wars | Greek War of Independence
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Anastasios Tsamados (
massacre of Chios. He also fought in the naval battle of Patras (1822) and died heroically during the famous Battle of Sphacteria
.
Biography
Anastasios Tsamados was born on the island of
L'Archipel en feu, 1884
).
Battle of Sphacteria
At the start of the
Alexandros Mavrocordatos had already taken refuge. The remaining Greek freedom fighters, with head the vice-governor Nikolaos Votsis, dared to be absolutely bold and sailed through a Turkish fleet of thirty-four ships. For four hours, they were bombarded and casualties entailed two dead along with eight wounded.[6] This scene has been depicted in the painting of Konstantinos Volanakis
"the exodus of Ares".
References
- ^ a b Ασπρέας Γ. (1930), Μεγάλη Στρατιωτική και Ναυτική Εγκυκλοπαίδεια- Λεξικόν: Έκδοση Μεγάλης Στρατιωτικής και Ναυτικής Εγκυκλοπαίδειας. Αθήνα. σ. 395
- ^ a b Δρανδάκης Παύλος. (1934) Μεγάλη Ελληνική Εγκυκλοπαίδεια (τομ. 23, σ. 404) (read online)
- ^ Dushku, Ledia (2008). "ARVANITËT NË REVOLUCIONIN GREK TË VITIT 1821". Albanological Research - Historical Sciences Series (38): 172.
- ISBN 978-1527562486.
- ISBN 978-960-05-1074-4.
- ^ Smith and Felton, p. 641. [Footnote] "In May, 1825, Ibrahim Pacha attacked Palaeo-Castro and the little island of Sphacteria, with a powerful fleet and army. Mavrocordatos had rushed to their defence. He threw himself with his suite into the island, which was at the moment held by a brave young Hydriote captain named Tsamados, and a small body of soldiers and sailors. Fifteen hundred Arabs landed on the island, but met with a desperate resistance from Tsamados and his gallant band. Tsamados was shot in the leg, but continued fighting on his knees until he was knocked down and killed. When this was known, the sailors, regaining their brig, on board which Mavrocordatos had already taken refuge, ran out through the Turkish fleet of thirty-four ships of war, and, having been exposed for more than four hours to their fire, escaped with riddled sails and rigging shot away, with two men killed and eight wounded. The surrender of Navarino followed; and not long after, the whole Morea, except the unconquerable Manotes, lay at the mercy of Ibrahim."
Sources
- History of the Hellenic Nation, Vol. XII: The Greek Revolution (1821–1832) (in Greek). Ekdotiki Athinon. 1971. pp. 373–380. OL 18546042M.
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Anastasios Tsamados.
- L’Archipel en feu at Project Gutenberg (in French)
- Smith, William and Felton, Cornelius Conway. A History of Greece: From the Earliest Times to the Roman Conquest, with Supplementary Chapters on the History of Literature and Art. Hickling, Swan, and Brown, 1855.
- Histoire picturale de la guerre de l'indépendance héllenique. Geneva. Editions d'art Boissonas et Paris: Librairie Jean Budy & Cie., 1926. [This work is a facsimile of the celebrated series of paintings commissioned by General Makryjannis sometime during the 1830s from the painter Panayotis Zographos.]
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