The fall of Missolonghi
1826 · Event
After a year's siege by Ottoman and Egyptian armies, Missolonghi's starving defenders stake everything on a mass night breakout — betrayed, and ending in slaughter, with the last defenders blowing themselves up in the powder magazines rather than surrender. Militarily a disaster; in the salons of Paris and London, the war's Alamo.
On these timelines: The Greek War of Independence, Eastern Europe & the Balkans, Anatolia / Byzantium / Ottoman / Turkey, Master
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