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A Venetian field camp 'at the Mills of Argos'

10 July 1694 Disputed

On 10 July 1694 the Venetian commander-in-chief in the Morea, Marino Michiel, dated a dispatch to the Senate 'from the camp at the Mills of Argos'. Venetian and French writers used that name both for Kefalari near Argos and for the mills at Lerna, so it is not certain that the camp lay at Myloi. In 1715, however, a French eyewitness did call the Ottoman camp at Myloi 'the camp of the Mills'.

Note: Myloi or Kefalari? The dispatch itself has not yet been read; its contents may settle the question.

Where
The water mills, Argos
Who
Marino Michiel
Threads
War and occupation, Water and mills
Certainty
Disputed sources disagree; both versions shown

Sources

  • ASV, Senato, Dispacci, Provveditori da Terra e da Mar, filza 846/1, dispatch no. 9 of Marino Michiel, «Dal Campo dei Molini d'Argos, li 10 Luglio 1694»
  • Argoliki Vivliothiki, «Ecclesiastic matters of Nafplio» (19-11-2019), n. 37–38 Open

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