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Served very successfully with the Imperial Army becoming a Major General in the Hussars at the age of 25.

Grandfather & father respectively of brothers Alexandros & Dimitrios.

Perhaps the most well known Egyptian General of the period, he was certainly the main hope for the Ottomans to retain their empire in Greece and the Balkans.

Perhaps the most significant American philhellene, Howe was born in 1802, studied at Brown University & qualified in medicine at Harvard.

Arrived in Greece in 1821 and sailed with Frank Abney Hastings and Jarvis on Thermistocles in 1822.

The first British Philhellene to join the Greek forces with his appointment as Chief of Staff to Ipsilantis in the Morea in April 1821.

As a young man he became an enthusiast for the Greek cause.

A very early participant in the Greek Wars of Independence.

Worked on behalf of Lord Cochrane.

Codrington was engaged in the arduous duties imposed on him by the Greek War of Independence.