People · fl. 1822–1828
J.-P.-P. Jourdain
French officer in Greek service and author
Jourdain's Mémoires historiques et militaires (Paris 1828) describe the government at the mills in 1824 and the battle of June 1825 in eyewitness detail.
Also written: Ζουρντέν, Jourdain, Colonel Jourdain
Events
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25 June 1825
A French eyewitness describes the battle lines
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…