Dimitrios Kriezis ( el, Δημήτριος Κριεζής) was a

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officer. He was the second son of Admiral and

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Antonios Kriezis Antonios Kriezis ( el, Αντώνιος Κριεζής, 1796–1865) was a captain of the Hellenic navy during the Greek War of Independence and a Prime Minister of Greece from 1849 to 1854. Kriezis was born in Troezen in 1796 to an Arvanite fam ...

. He served as the aide-de-camp of King

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, became Minister for Naval Affairs in the

Nikolaos Deligiannis Nikolaos Petrou Deligiannis (Greek : Νικόλαος Πέτρου Δηλιγιάννης, 1845, Athens – 5 January 1910, Paris) was the caretaker Prime Minister of Greece from January to June 1895. Biography Born in Athens, he is the son ...

cabinet of 1895, and headed the Greek fleet's

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squadron during the

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. He retired with the rank of Rear Admiral.

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