Georgios Drakos ( el, Γεώργιος Δράκος; 1788–1827) was a

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chieftain of the

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Biography

Drakos was born in

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in 1788. While the Ottoman

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forces were besieging, they attempted to take control of spring from which the Souliotes got water. Certain of victory, they encamped with 6000 soldiers. Georgios Drakos reportedly fought them with a force of only 18 men, and managed to repulse them until

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came with reinforcements, and declared Drakos the hero of the victory. In the 1821 Battle of Pente Pigadia, Drakos lead a contingent of only 300 men. He also took part in other battles, in Panassari in 1824, in Kolovates in 1825, in the campaign of Karaiskakis in Eastern Greece, as commander-in-chief in the siege of Salona, in Distomo against the Pasha of

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and Karofilbei. He died in

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in 1827. He was a prisoner of Kutahi and was being taken to

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to recover, when Kutahi's guards killed him by order and said he committed suicide. His widow Susana and his orphaned children settled in Nafpaktos in 1829, together with the

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of Athanasios, Georgios (grandfather and first cousin of the General) and Nikolaos Drakos.

Bibliography

Γεώργιος Δράκος
συνοπτικό βιογραφικό σημείωμα από το Ινστιτούτο Νεοελληνικών Ερευνών * {{Greek War of Independence Souliotes People from the Ottoman Empire 1780s births 1827 deaths