Kyriakos Mitsotakis: From the leaders of the Cretan volunteers, and grandfather of the current president of the New Republic

The voluntary bodies have been active in the area of the Continent was the mixed extract Continent of lieutenant Dimitrios Botsaris and power 500 Souliotes and the body of Cretan Chieftains who were active in the area of Souli for the control of the unique path from Τσερίτσανα to Two Mountains Ολύτσικας and Dodona, the extract of the Σπυρομίλιου in Flounder, the bodies of Colonel Crow and the Column Metsovo in Metsovo and Yoke, the body of the Greeks Ερυθροχιτώνων known as Γαριβαλδινών of the elder Ριτσιώτη Garibaldi, who came from Italy, this is classified with 70 Corfiots volunteers and the noble Corfiot member and poet Λορέντζος Μαβίλης who, with his dying breath after the fatal injury of the Driskos on November 23, 1912 said the immortal phrase “I was hoping for such a price, to give my life for Greece, the Cretans volunteers. in 77 bodies a force of 3,500 men with the heads of the editor of the newspaper “Preacher” Kyriakos Mitsotakis,grandfather of…
current leader of the New Δημοπκρατίας and Ηππίτη,Δεληγιαννάκη, Makris, Skoula, Manos and others, other of 3,500 Cretans formed the Independent Regiment of Cretans under the lieutenant Colonel Συνανιώτη, (in crete surrendered to the Bizani and by Cretans of the Συνανιώτη it sounded the first time, the cry of AIR), in October of 1912, arrived in Preveza the Holy Company of Cretan Students with 240 students, who were enrolled in the Army, Continent, (of these 240 αμούστακους heroes the 160 were killed during the operations) and a Company of Cretan teachers joined in the Constitution of Ηπίτη. At the mention of war, 225 boys that was established in America formed the Sacred Company of Philadelphia, known as the Company of the Americans. They gave it all in order to offer to the Country. With the financial assistance of Epirus chartered passenger ship, bought 4 lowlands cannons and artillery, and in November 1912 joined the Independent Constitution Member of the Συνανιώτη. Half of them were killed in the Αετοράχη. From the invitation I have been absent the Cyprus. Nearly 2,000 Cypriots volunteers went and fought in various fronts of Macedonia and Epirus in 1912. Among the Cypriot fighters, including many influential persons of the society, as the then archbishop Makarios and metropolitan Meletius and the mayor of Limassol Christodoulos Sozos, who was killed in the Prophet Elijah Μανωλιάσας in December 1912. It should be mentioned, and the assistance of the inhabitants of the Continent, particularly of Lakka Souli, in the bodies of those who undertook the difficult task of logistics, namely finding food, food preparation and nursing of the wounded. Their work was very difficult. The inside primitive, and the goods few.
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