People · 1797–1864
Ioannis Makriyannis
General of the Greek Revolution, politician and memoir writer
Makriyannis fortified the mills of Myloi in June 1825 and was one of the leaders who held them against Ibrahim Pasha. His bust stands in the centre of the village.
Also written: Ιωάννης Μακρυγιάννης, Yannis Makriyannis, Makrygiannis, Μακρυγιάννης
Events
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June 1825
Admiral de Rigny warns Makriyannis
While the defences were going up, the French admiral Henri de Rigny visited the mills and told Makriyannis that his men were too few and the position too weak to stand against Ibrahim's cannon. Makriyannis answered that…
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June 1825
Makriyannis fortifies the mills
Makriyannis and the war minister Andreas Metaxas chose to stop Ibrahim at Myloi, then a hamlet of about thirty houses. Makriyannis built ramparts, cut loopholes in the garden wall and strengthened the old stone tower.…
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24 June 1825
Food and ammunition stored at the mills
As Ibrahim Pasha marched on Nafplio, a corps of 250 men was sent at once to seize the position of the mills, where large stores of food and ammunition had been laid up. A newspaper of the time wrote that this was exactly…
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25 June 1825
The Battle of Myloi
Ibrahim Pasha's army attacked the fortified mills in the late afternoon, in three columns along the Argos road, over the hill and from the Kiveri side. A few hundred Greeks under Dimitrios Ypsilantis, Makriyannis and…
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25 June 1825
Makriyannis wounded, few Greek losses
Makriyannis was wounded in the fighting but kept leading his men without letting them see it. The Greeks lost only a handful of men, among them a philhellene, while more than a hundred of Ibrahim's soldiers were killed…
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1836–1839
Makriyannis has the battle painted
In the later 1830s Makriyannis asked the folk painter Panagiotis Zografos and his sons to paint the battles of the Revolution as he remembered them. One of the series shows the Battle of the Mills of Nafplio, with the…