People · 1797–1831
Konstantinos Mavromichalis
Maniot commander in the Greek Revolution
Mavromichalis was second in command at the mills of Myloi in June 1825 and held the side towards Kiveri, with support from Greek ships.
Also written: Κωνσταντίνος Μαυρομιχάλης, Μαυρομιχάλης
Events
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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
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…