On April 10th 1826 and after a year of siege the 10.000 Missolonghi inhabitants made a heroic Exodus of Missolonghi adding another brilliant page to the Greek War of Independence history.
It was April 15th 1825, three years after the failed attempt to occupy Missolonghi that the Ottoman armies returned to besiege the city that had become the seat of Western Continental Greece.
The army of Rashid Memmet Pasha or Kiutahis as the Greeks called him, numbered 20.000 men began the second siege of the city later to be joined by another 10.000 men under Ibrahim Pasha who returned from the Peloponnese without help from the rest of the Greeks due to the civil war and having to cope with superior enemy forces.the residents of Missolonghi managed to resist for a whole year.
The three-man committee composed by of Ioannis Papadiamdopoulos, Demitrios Themelis and Georgios Kanovas organized the city's defence.
The fortress of the city had been restored following the efforts of Alexandros Mavrocrdatos the great phihellene Lord Byron and engeneer Michael Kokkinis.
PLEASE DON'T FORGET THAT THE PARTHENON MARBLES MUST RETURN TO GREECE.
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