Georgios Sachtouris ( el, Γεώργιος Σαχτούρης, 1783–1841) was a Hydriot ship captain and a leading admiral of the Greek War of Independence. Sachtouris was born in Hydra in 1796 to a family of

Arvanite Arvanites (; Arvanitika: , or , ; Greek: , ) are a bilingual population group in Greece of Albanian origin. They traditionally speak Arvanitika, an Albanian language variety, along with Greek. Their ancestors were first recorded as settler ...

origin. Like most of its population he engaged in maritime commerce. Following the outbreak of the Greek War of Independence, he became a leading commander of the Hydriot ships, and participated in the naval battles of Patras, Spetses,

Samos Samos (, also ; el, Σάμος ) is a Greece, Greek island in the eastern Aegean Sea, south of Chios, north of Patmos and the Dodecanese, and off the coast of western Turkey, from which it is separated by the -wide Mycale Strait. It is also a se ...

, Gerontas, and others, as well as in the failed raid on

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. Governor

Ioannis Kapodistrias Count Ioannis Antonios Kapodistrias (10 or 11 February 1776 – 9 October 1831), sometimes anglicized as John Capodistrias ( el, Κόμης Ιωάννης Αντώνιος Καποδίστριας, Komis Ioannis Antonios Kapodistrias; russian: � ...

appointed him commander of the

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n squadron, but soon he joined the opposition forces against the Governor. With the establishment of the independent

Kingdom of Greece The Kingdom of Greece ( grc, label= Greek, Βασίλειον τῆς Ἑλλάδος ) was established in 1832 and was the successor state to the First Hellenic Republic. It was internationally recognised by the Treaty of Constantinople, wh ...

, Sachtouris joined the

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, receiving the rank of vice admiral and serving in several senior commands. He died at his home island of Hydra in 1841. His sons

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and

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likewise became naval officers. His great-grandson Miltos Sachtouris was a distinguished poet. The Greek navy named a 1834-built gunboat, a

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing ...

-era ''Flower''-class corvette, and a ''Gearing''-class destroyer after him. Two cannons used on his ship during the revolution are on either side of the stairs outside the National Historical Museum in

Athens Athens ( ; el, Αθήνα, Athína ; grc, Ἀθῆναι, Athênai (pl.) ) is both the capital and largest city of Greece. With a population close to four million, it is also the seventh largest city in the European Union. Athens dominates ...

and one outside the

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Georgios Sachtouris Archive
{{DEFAULTSORT:Sachtouris, Georgios 1783 births 1841 deaths 19th-century Greek people Greek military leaders of the Greek War of Independence Hellenic Navy admirals Greek businesspeople in shipping People from Hydra (island)