Revolution and liberation · The Revolution of 1821
Kolokotronis makes the mills his headquarters
July 1822 Probable
In the summer of 1822, as Dramali's army stood in the plain of Argos, Theodoros Kolokotronis made the mills of Lerna his headquarters. According to Samuel Howe he gathered up to 6,000 armed peasants there before the Greeks trapped the Ottoman army in the passes. Later artists painted Kolokotronis among the victors at Lerna.
Note: Howe was not in Greece in 1822; his account of that year is second-hand.
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Pictures
Lithograph "Kolokotronis gathers the victors over Dramalis at Lerna" (1822 camp scene) with a four-language caption; idealised landscape. Peter von Hess (painter), H. Kohler (lithographer), Mey & Widmayer, Munich; National Historical Museum, Athens
Sources
- S. G. Howe, An Historical Sketch of the Greek Revolution, New York 1828, ch. III (1825) Open (opens in a new tab)
- Lithograph after Peter von Hess, 'Kolokotronis gathers the victors over Dramalis at Lerna', Munich 1852, National Historical Museum, Athens
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