Nikolaos Kriezotis ( el, Νικόλαος Κριεζώτης; 1785–1853) was a

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soldier who served as a leader during the Greek War of Independence in

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Biography

Kriezotis was born in 1785, in

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, into a family of

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.Χρυσολόγης, Αθανάσιος Ν. (1877)
Νικόλαος Κριεζιώτης: Διατριβή αναγνωσθείσα εν τω Φιλολ. Συλλόγω Βύρωνι εν δυσί συνεδριάσεσι τω 1873.
' Εκ του τυπογραφείου των αδελφών Βαρβαρήγου p. 6 Kriezotis was general officer in the Greek revolutionary army and is credited with being one of the leaders of the 1822 First Siege of Missolonghi, fought against the Ottomans, who were led by

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. Kriezotis had earlier participated in the siege of Athens reinforcing the siege of the Acropolis. In 1829 he participated in the Battle of Petra, the last battle of the Greek Revolution. After the revolution he joined the Russian Party. He led the Revolution of 1843 in Euboea and the following year was elected a delegate to the First National Assembly and to the first Parliament after that. Kriezotis then withdrew to

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, where he died in 1853.

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