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A French eyewitness describes the battle lines

25 June 1825 (13 June 1825 old style) Proven

According to Jourdain, the French general Roche met Ypsilantis and Mavromichalis in the mills that morning. He counted 227 Greeks: 100 to the right of the mills, 100 on the slope to the left and the rest behind the walls, in the gardens and in the houses, against some 5,600 infantry and 600 horsemen with two small cannon and a howitzer. The column coming from Kiveri got stuck in the marshes, and shots were still heard in the plain at nine in the evening.

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Where
The water mills, Lake and marsh of Lerna, Kiveri
Who
J.-P.-P. Jourdain, Dimitrios Ypsilantis, Konstantinos Mavromichalis
Threads
The Revolution of 1821, Travellers
Certainty
Proven confirmed by primary sources

Sources

  • J.-P.-P. Jourdain, Mémoires historiques et militaires sur les événements de la Grèce depuis 1822 jusqu'au combat de Navarin, Paris 1828 Open

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