Maurice Persat
Maurice Persat (30 April 1788 in
.Biography
Persat was born in Puy-de-Dome in central France in 1788. He was a captain of cavalry in
Greek Revolution against the Ottomans in 1821, he went to Greece. According to Dimitris Fotiadis he was one of the first officers of the 1st Battalion of the regular Greek army, which by order of Demetrios Ypsilantis was organized in July 1821 in the town of Kalamata by the Corsican officer Joseph Baleste;[3] according to himself, he didn't belong to this Battalion but was attached to the staff of Ypsilantis.[4]
After Greece, Persat went to Spain and took part in battles against the forces of Louis Antoine, Duke of Angoulême, as commander of a cavalry detachment under the command of Francisco Espoz y Mina. In the years 1838-1839, he wrote "Memoirs 1806-1844", which, however, remained unpublished until 1910.[5]
References
- ISBN 9780807124635. Retrieved 2012-11-03.
- ISBN 9781906924003. Retrieved 2012-11-03.
- ^ Δημήτρης Φωτιάδης, Η Επανάσταση τού 21, ΜΕΛΙΣΣΑ, 1971, τ.Β, σ.134
- ^ Maurice Persat, Mémoires du commandant Persat, p.84
- ^ Diccionario biográfico del Trienio Liberal, Madrid: El Museo Universal, 1991.
