Nikolaos Mykonios ( el, Νικόλαος Μυκώνιος, November 6, 1803 - March 21, 1890) was a fighter of the Greek War of Independence and later an officer of the

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Biography

Mykonios was born in Koronida of

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on November 6, 1803. He took part in the Greek War of Independence, serving first in the naval battles, and from 1825 as a non-commissioned officer''Ποικίλη Στοά - Εθνικόν Ημερολόγιον 1891'', Athens 1891, vol. 9, p. 391 - 392. in the regular revolutionary army which was created in

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. Under the command of

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, he fought in the campaign of Tripolitsa, in the

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, in the battle of Chaidari, where he was injured (and promoted to sergeant for valour), in the siege of the Acropolis where he was injured again, in the

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campaign (wounded again), and in the

Chios expedition The Chios expedition (Greek: Εκστρατεία της Χίου) was an unsuccessful attempt of the regular Greek army and irregular military units for the recapture of Chios island during the final stages of the Greek War of Independence. Chi ...

.''Μεγάλη Στρατιωτική και Ναυτική Εγκυκλοπαίδεια'', Athens 1927, vol. 4, p. 672. In 1828 in Chios, on the orders of Fabvier he fell into the sea and swam to the opposite shore alerting the boats there, which came for reinforcement and saved all the regular Greek army in Chios from potential disaster. After the creation of the Greek State, Mykonios followed a military career reaching the rank of the major of

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. He retired on December 4, 1861. and he died in

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on March 21, 1890.

References

Bibliography

Konstantinos Skokos (1891). ''Ημερολόγιον Σκόκου''. Athens: Εκ του Τυπογραφείου των Καταστημάτων Ανέστη Κωνσταντινίδου.
*''Μεγάλη Στρατιωτική και Ναυτική Εγκυκλοπαίδεια'', Athens 1927.

External links

Νικόλαος Μυκώνιος (Nikolaos Mykonios) - biographical information from the Institute for Neohellenic Research.
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