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MIAOULIS, ANDREAS VOKOS

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MIAOULIS, ANDREAS VOKOS or Bokos (1768-1835), See also:Greek See also:admiral and politician, was See also:born in Negropont. The surname Miaoulis, which was added to his See also:family name of Vokos, or Bokos, is said to be derived from the See also:Turkish word miaoul, a See also:felucca. He settled in the See also:island of See also:Hydra on the See also:east of the Morea, and when the Greek See also:War of See also:Independence began was known among his See also:fellow townsmen as a trader in See also:corn who had gained See also:wealth, and who made a popular use of his See also:money. He had been a See also:merchant See also:captain, and was chosen to See also:lead the See also:naval forces of the islands when they See also:rose against the See also:government of the See also:Sultan. The islanders had enjoyed some measure of exemption from the worst excesses of the Turkish officials, but suffered severely from the See also:conscription raised to See also:man the Turkish See also:ships; and though they seemed to be peculiarly open to attack by the Sultan's forces from the See also:sea, they took an See also:early and active See also:part in the rising. As early as 1822 Miaoulis was appointed navarch, or admiral, of the swarm of small vessels which formed the insurgent See also:fleet. He commanded the expedition sent to take revenge for the See also:massacre of Chio (see See also:KANARIS) in the same See also:year. He continued to be the naval See also:chief of the Greeks till See also:Lord See also:Dundonald entered their service in 1827, when he retired in See also:order to leave the See also:English officer See also:free to See also:act as See also:commander. In the See also:interval he had had the See also:general direction of the naval See also:side of the Greek struggle for freedom. He had a See also:share in the successful See also:relief of the first See also:siege of See also:Missolonghi in See also:December 1822 and See also:January 1823. In 1824, after the See also:conquest of Psara by the See also:Turks, he commanded the Greek forces which prevented the further progress of the Sultan's fleet, though at the cost of the loss of many See also:fire ships and men to themselves. But in the same year he was unable to prevent the See also:Egyptian forces from occupying See also:Navarino, though he harassed them with some success.

During 1825 he succeeded in carrying stores and reinforcements into Missolonghi, when it was besieged for the second See also:

time, though he could not avert its fall. His efforts to interrupt the sea communications of the Egyptian forces failed, owing to the enormous disproportion of the two squadrons in the siege and strength of the ships. As the war went on the naval See also:power of the Greeks diminished, partly owing to the penury of their See also:treasury, and partly to the growth of piracy in the general anarchy of the Eastern Mediterranean. When Miaoulis retired to make See also:room for Dundonald the conduct of the struggle had really passed into the hands of the See also:powers. When independence had been obtained, Miaoulis in his old See also:age was entangled in the See also:civil conflicts of his See also:country, as an opponent of Capodistrias and the See also:Russian party. He had to employ his skill in the employment of fireships against them at See also:Poros in 1831. He was one of the deputation sent to invite See also:King See also:Otho to accept the See also:crown of See also:Greece, and was made See also:rear-admiral and then See also:vice-admiral by him. He died on the 24th of See also:June 1835 at See also:Athens.

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