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    The Third Siege of Missolonghi (Greek: Τρίτη Πολιορκία του Μεσσολογίου, often erroneously referred to as the second siege) was fought in the Greek War...
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    The First Siege of Missolonghi (Greek: Πρώτη πολιορκία του Μεσολογγίου) was an attempt by Ottoman forces to capture the strategically located port town...
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    The Second Siege of Missolonghi was the second attempt by Ottoman forces to capture the strategically located port town of Missolonghi during the third...
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    Greece on the Ruins of Missolonghi (French: La Grèce sur les ruines de Missolonghi) is an 1826 oil painting by French painter Eugène Delacroix, and now...
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    Le siège de Corinthe (English: The Siege of Corinth) is an opera in three acts by Gioachino Rossini set to a French libretto by Luigi Balocchi and Alexandre...
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    Consequently, after his victory at Missolonghi, the Ottoman commander-in-chief, Reşid Mehmed Pasha, turned against Athens. The siege began at 25 August 1826, and...
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    to be cancelled. He began his literary career with a drama, the Siege de Missolonghi, performed at the Théâtre français in 1828. This tragedy was a pronounced...
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    Markos Botsaris (category Missolonghi)
    War of Independence. He played a key role in relieving the First Siege of Missolonghi in 1822–1823 and was awarded the title of General of Western Greece...
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  • Obilić Lord Porchester – Don Pedro, King of Castile Émile Souvestre – Siege de Missolonghi Gotthilf August von Maltitz – Hans Kohlhaas Adam Mickiewicz – Konrad...
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    The siege of Buda (4 May – 21 August 1541) ended with the capture of the city of Buda, the historical capital of the Kingdom of Hungary, by the Ottoman...
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    defenders, and the attack failed. Six days later, the siege was lifted. After the failure at Missolonghi, Reşid Mehmed moved against the mountainous region...
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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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    many battles against the Ottoman Turks including the Third Siege of Missolonghi. During the siege Dimitrios Makris married Eupraxia, daughter of the city's...
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  • and third sieges of Missolonghi (1822, 1823, 1825–1826) Second siege of El Callao (es) (1824–1826) – Spanish American wars of independence Siege of the Acropolis...
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    1822, he and Mehmed Reshid Pasha joined forces to besiege the town of Missolonghi. The town was completely surrounded on 25 October, and might have fallen...
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    sympathy for the Greek cause. The campaign ended after the Second Siege of Missolonghi in December 1823. In February 1824, the loan for Greece was floated...
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    helped lift the second siege of Missolonghi in 1823, and did his best [citation needed] to save the town from its third siege in 1826. That same year...
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    Lord Byron (category Missolonghi)
    the age of 36, from a fever contracted after the first and second sieges of Missolonghi. His one child conceived within marriage, Ada Lovelace, was a founding...
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    The siege of Tripolitsa or fall of Tripolitsa (Greek: Άλωση της Τριπολιτσάς, romanized: Álosi tis Tripolitsás, Greek pronunciation: [ˈalosi tis tripoliˈt͡sas])...
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  • Georgios Vagias (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    He participated in a number of major conflicts such as the Second Siege of Missolonghi (1823) under Kitsos Tzavelas and the Battle of Domvraina. He also...
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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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    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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    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. Named General in...
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    Albania during December 1823. Kostas Botsaris Markos Botsaris Second Siege of Missolonghi Bradford, James C. (2004). International Encyclopedia of Military...
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    was killed on 4 July 1822 in Splantza and was buried with honours in Missolonghi. Maniot tradition and folk songs, show how his younger brother's death...
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    Marinus. De obsidione Scodrensi [The Siege of Shkodra]. Venice: B. de Vitalibus, 1504. Barleti, Marin (trans. David Hosaflook). The Siege of Shkodra...
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  • Preveza to Vonitsa. 14 November – Travelled towards Missolonghi. 20 November – Visited Missolonghi. 25 December – Arrived at Athens. 1810 Mar–Apr – Toured...
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    The First Siege of the Acropolis in 1821–1822 involved the siege of the Acropolis of Athens by the Greek revolutionary forces, during the early stages...
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    Jena, to Pułtusk, the siege of Stralsund and Graudentz, where he was wounded. Assigned to the army of Spain in 1808, he became aide-de-camp of Marshal Bessières;...
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    decisive Ottoman victory at the Third Siege of Missolonghi on 10 April 1826, fighting was restricted to the Siege of the Acropolis. The Ottomans seemed...
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