Andreas Miaoulis

Andreas Miaoulis.
Lithograph by Karl Krazeisen . Miaoulis' signature:

Bust of Miaoulis.

Andreas Miaoulis also Andreas Vokos Miaulis or Andreas Bokos Miaoulis , ( Greek Ανδρέας Βώκος Μιαούλης , * May 20, 1769 ; † June 24, 1835 in Piraeus ) was a Greek admiral and freedom fighter .

Miaoulis was born as Andreas Vokos either on Euboea or on the island of Hydra as a child of an Arvanite family. He only acquired the surname Miaoulis as an adult. Miaoulis began his career in seafaring. At the age of 16, he commanded a family-owned ship. After making a sizable fortune by trading grain, he settled on Hydra . In 1821 he joined the Greek Revolution and took part in all of the forays of that year with his ship Leonidas .

Appointed commander in chief of the Greek fleet , he was victorious on March 5 and 6 at Patras and on September 20, 1822 in the Spezzia Canal and on May 12, 1825 destroyed part of the enemy fleet in the port of Modon . He burned an enemy frigate on December 8, 1825 , hijacked several transport ships and forced Ibrahim Pasha on January 8, 1826 to participate in the unfortunate sea battle at Cape Papas (Araxos).

Ousted by Lord Cochrane in 1827 , he again took over command of the Greek fleet after the Battle of Navarino .

As the head of the anti-Russian opposition party against Ioannis Kapodistrias, he seized the port of Poros in July 1831 and, enclosed by the Russian fleet, burned the Greek warships Hellas and Hydra lying there on August 13, 1831 in order not to have to hand them over to the Russian fleet what could be viewed as an almost treasonous act. The murder of Kapodistrias on October 9, 1831 protected him from persecution.

After Prince Otto of Bavaria was elected King of Greece , he was one of the Deputies of Homage. In the organization of the navy he was appointed rear admiral , on October 9, 1833, sea prefect and April 5, 1835, vice admiral .

But he died at the age of 66 on June 24, 1835 in Piraeus. By order of the Greek government, his grave was decorated with a memorial on the Akti Miaoulis (Miaoulis Coast) named after him . His embalmed heart is kept in the Hydra Museum. His bones were also transferred to Hydra in 1986.

The later Prime Minister Nikolaos Anasthasios Miaoulis († 1867 in Paris) was one of Miaoulis' sons.

literature

G. Grimm: Miaulis, Andreas Vokos , in: Biographisches Lexikon zur Geschichte Südosteuropas . Vol. 3. Munich 1979, p. 172 f.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Jens Rohmann, "Das Herz des Admiral", in: Greece newspaper of October 19, 2011, p. 16
^ Brockhaus in Leipzig, Berlin and Vienna, 14th edition, 1894-1896
↑ Xhufi: Greqia pa heronjë të saj. Retrieved January 27, 2013 (Albanian).
↑ Jack Sweetman: The Great Admirals: Command at Sea, 1587-1945 . Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Maryland 1997, ISBN 0-87021-229-X , pp. 217 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

personal data
SURNAME	Miaoulis, Andreas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Miaoulis, Andreas Vokos; Miaulis, Andreas Bokos
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Greek admiral
DATE OF BIRTH	May 20, 1769
PLACE OF BIRTH	Negroponte
DATE OF DEATH	June 24, 1835
Place of death	Piraeus

[Rohmann_2011_16-1] Jens Rohmann, "Das Herz des Admiral", in: Greece newspaper of October 19, 2011, p. 16

[2] Brockhaus in Leipzig, Berlin and Vienna, 14th edition, 1894-1896

[3] Xhufi: Greqia pa heronjë të saj. Retrieved January 27, 2013 (Albanian).

[4] Jack Sweetman: The Great Admirals: Command at Sea, 1587-1945 . Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Maryland 1997, ISBN 0-87021-229-X , pp. 217 ( limited preview in Google Book search).