MILITARY PERSONNEL

Markos Botsaris

1790 - 1823

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Markos Botsaris (Greek: Μάρκος Μπότσαρης; 1790 – 21 August 1823) was a Souliot chieftain, general of the Greek revolutionary army and hero of the Greek War of Independence. He played a key role in relieving the First Siege of Missolonghi in 1822–1823 and was awarded the title of General of Western Greece by the revolutionary Greek government. He was killed during the Battle of Karpenisi and was buried in Missolonghi with full honors. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Markos Botsaris has received more than 258,391 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Markos Botsaris is the 779th most popular military personnel (up from 818th in 2019), the 380th most popular biography from Greece (up from 397th in 2019) and the 30th most popular Greek Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Markos Botsaris ranks 779 out of 2,058. Before him are Joseph E. Johnston, Ettore Bastico, Qin Liangyu, Hermann-Bernhard Ramcke, Cleombrotus, and Muhammad bin Bakhtiyar Khalji. After him are Sosthenes of Macedon, Alphonse Juin, Abdülkerim Nadir Pasha, Otto von Lossow, Seiichi Itō, and Saitō Dōsan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1790, Markos Botsaris ranks 17. Before him are Leopold, Grand Duke of Baden, John Austin, Robert Stirling, Marquis de Custine, Adolph Diesterweg, and Gideon Mantell. After him are José Antonio Páez, William Parry, Leopold, Prince of Salerno, Keisai Eisen, John Cockerill, and Karol Lipiński. Among people deceased in 1823, Markos Botsaris ranks 16. Before him are André-Jacques Garnerin, Edmund Cartwright, Abraham-Louis Breguet, Rafael del Riego, Karl Leonhard Reinhold, and Pierre-Paul Prud'hon. After him are Princess Amélie Louise of Arenberg, Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski, William Playfair, Iosif Igelström, Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus, and Zacharias Werner.

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In Greece

Among people born in Greece, Markos Botsaris ranks 380 out of 1,024. Before him are Ptolemy of Aloros (-450), Stavros Niarchos (1909), Meleager (-320), Hellanicus of Lesbos (-490), Aristobulus of Cassandreia (-375), and Cleombrotus (-600). After him are Theophylact of Ohrid (1055), Perictione (-500), Cebes (-500), Princess Katherine of Greece and Denmark (1913), Archidamus III (-350), and Eupalinos (-600).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Greece

Among military personnels born in Greece, Markos Botsaris ranks 30. Before him are Peucestas (-390), Demosthenes (-412), Iphicrates (-415), Peithon (-355), Georgios Karaiskakis (1780), and Cleombrotus (-600). After him are Chabrias (-500), Dimitrios Ioannidis (1923), Clearchus of Sparta (-401), Müezzinzade Ali Pasha (null), Lamachus (-500), and Callicratidas (-500).

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