Yeóryios Karaïskákis

Yeóryios Karaïskákis (in Γεώργιος Καραϊσκάκης Greek) born in Agrapha (Thessalie) in 1780 or 1782 and died in the combat with Athens the May 4th 1827 was a military chief and a hero of the Guerre of Greek independence. It was called “wire of the nun”.

His/her father was a Capétan of the area of Agrapha. Yeóryios began its military career like Klephte in this same area before entering to the service of Ali Pasha de Janina his personal guard, just like another klephte celebrates Odysséas Androútsos.

It engaged as of 1821 in the Guerre of Greek independence. Makriyánnis tells in its Mémoires that the June 8th, Karaïskákis “was wounded in its parts because, to make fun of the Turks, it had shown them its posterior. ” (Macriyannis, Memories. , Albin Michel, p. 94)
Weak and poitrtinaire, it was able to him to be made relate in litter to the line of fire. It compensated for this weakness by a great charisma. He played a big role at the time of the head offices of Missolonghi. He succeeds in releasing the city in 1823 then 1826. He was then named commander-in-chief of the Greek forces in Roumélie, after the death of Androutsos and the forced obliteration of Theódoros Kolokotrónis. He was one of the supports of Kapodistrias because it wished to give a stable government to the Greece.

He died at the time of his attempt to release the Acropole of besieged Athens, at the time of the battle of Analatos. Its death is perhaps the cause of the defeat.

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