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impose discipline, and get the volunteers to accept the regulations. However, only 150 men under Papathanasopoulos—an officer held in high esteem by Chrysovergis, but completely unmentioned in the Russian sources—stayed on, while the rest refused to obey and were discharged. The former volunteers mostly headed for Bessarabia, where they tried to eke out an existence until the war's end. Although again they were helped by the Odessa Greek community, many of them were soon in dire straits. According to the historian Maria Todorova,
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potential usefulness against a feared Austrian attack, it was decided to retain the volunteers' services at reduced pay. Furthermore, the volunteer battalions were disbanded and their individual companies attached to Russian units. At least some of the Greeks were discharged, for by September only 672 men are recorded on the rolls; the battalions were broken up into six companies, which were then attached to the regiments of the
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that broke out in February: of the 743 men on the lists in late March, almost 200 were hospitalized. According to Chrysovergis, 96 died of typhus. The hardships and disease, as well as the realization that the hoped-for liberation of the Balkans from Ottoman rule was receding into the distant future,
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Given the impossibility of the volunteers returning to their homelands under the conditions of war—especially as, unlike the Serbs and Bulgarians, most of the Greek volunteers had come by sea rather than overland—their inability to survive otherwise in a foreign and largely hostile country, and their
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for Odessa, where they arrived twelve days later. The Odessa Greek community collected funds for their upkeep, and the corps was reinforced with new recruits, in large part from those volunteers who had been discharged in 1854, but also with new arrivals. There were hopes that as many as 500–600 new
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men in Bessarabia were to assemble in Odessa, and those still in the Crimea at Sevastopol, for embarkation to Greece. Over 300 of them arrived at Piraeus in June, but the Greek government refused to admit them into the country, arguing that many were not actually Greek citizens, but most likely the
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Following the end of the siege and the Russian retreat, followed by the start of the diplomatic talks that ended the war, the Greek Legion was superfluous. In November, after another incident of unruliness in the corps, Mourouzis was replaced by Grigorios Kantakouzinos. Kantakouzinos again tried to
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The retreat of the Russian forces north of the Danube reduced the usefulness of the various Balkan volunteers, and the costs of their upkeep led to suggestions of disbanding them and incorporating those who wished to stay on into regular Russian units. Indeed, most of the Moldavians and Wallachians
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Nevertheless, the Russian commanders were still seeking for a suitable employment for the volunteers, especially as their lack of discipline often forced the regular Russian troops to intervene to maintain order among them. Gorchakov again dismissed suggestions that they be disbanded, but stressed
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In early April, the Greeks were withdrawn from the city itself to the environs, where Prince Mourouzis tried to improve the corps' discipline and training, and give it a more regular character. The Legion was divided in two commands, one headed by Papadoukas and the other by Chrysovergis. In May,
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Based on the surviving member lists—written in French or Russian—of three companies, slightly over a quarter of the volunteers came from the independent Greek kingdom, with the rest from all corners of the Greek world, including Ottoman territories—particularly the areas of Epirus, Thessaly, and
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signed a decree allowing the volunteers to settle in Russia. The Russians knew, however, that most of the volunteers intended to return to their homelands in Ottoman territories, especially after the Treaty of Paris granted them amnesty. A few did however settle in Russia, mostly in the Greek
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attack, was forced to evacuate the Danubian Principalities in July 1854. According to the Russian historian E. Kovalesky, a small detachment of 25 local Greeks recruited by Chrysovergis is reported to have inflicted 78 casualties on a British landing detachment at
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As early as 1864, a memorial was planned to be erected at Sevastopol commemorate the Greek volunteers, but it was not realized until 2016, as part of the "Russia year" in Greece, with funds from the Russian state, the Greek diaspora, and Sevastopol authorities.
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in early June, before departing without losses. Chrysovergis, in his own account, places the incident against Cossacks fighting for the Ottomans. Some volunteers under Papadoukas also fought in the battle between Soymonov's troops and an Ottoman army at
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in early 1854. Badly organized and facing strong Ottoman forces, these uprisings were doomed to failure, particularly after Greece itself was forced to a strict neutrality in the conflict following the Anglo-French occupation of
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supported their wish, and suggested that after the end of the war, the Greeks might be settled in the Crimea. It appears that this suggestion found a favourable reception with the Emperor, since the Greeks could replace the
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and adopt uniforms that were similar to the Russian ones; a suggestion vehemently opposed by Chrysovergis. It was also recommended that the volunteers be rearmed; they were good marksmen, but armed mostly with
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At this point, the thoughts of both the Russian command and the Greek volunteers increasingly turned to the Crimea, where British, French, and Ottoman forces had landed. Already in September, Emperor
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in March 1854, and some elements participated in the final engagements of the Danube theatre, before the Russian troops abandoned the Principalities. From there the Legion was sent to the
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1887–88). Russian personnel attached to the Greek corps was limited to one field officer, two instructor-captains, 16 sergeants, and a small drum and bugle detachment.
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were tasked with drawing up a draft. The attempts to regularize the Greek Legion included the insistence, by Mourouzis and many officers, that the Greeks abandon the
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Urusov made recommendations for instilling discipline by means of a formal organization of the Legion; Mourouzis and the Sevastopol garrison's chief of staff, Prince
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left, and their two battalions were disbanded; but most of the two battalions of Bulgarians and Serbs stayed on, as did virtually all (1045 of 1079) of the Greeks.
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on 17 February, which ended in a Russian defeat, the Greeks suffering about sixty casualties. In the aftermath of the battle, the Legion was sent into
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The Greeks chose a variant of the traditional dress, as used by the Mountain Guard of the Greek kingdom—similar to that now worn by the
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on 30 March 1856, the rest of the Legion were discharged as well. The issue of their repatriation now became paramount: the
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Moreover, it appears that there were two independent companies, under the priest Konstantinos Doukas (or "Papadoukas") and
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reported that the Greeks alone numbered 1097 men in ten companies, forming two battalions, with a third being created.
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recruits could be gathered, and Captain Antonios Gines was appointed as recruiting agent. Gines made his base at
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At the same time, volunteers from the Christian Balkan nations flocked to the Russian army that had entered the
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on 5–6 July. Finally, the 3rd company of the 2nd battalion (under Sterios Harisis) fought at the village of
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By mid-March, the corps had grown to two battalions, one of which was Greek, and by May, Lieutenant General
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18 February] 1855, the Legion received the name "Greek Legion of Emperor Nicholas I" (
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Sketch of Aristeidis Chrysovergis, one of the commanders of the Legion, and its main historian
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24 December] 1855, the five companies of Greek volunteers, numbering 823 men, left
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This article is about the unit in the Crimean War. For the unit in the Napoleonic Wars, see
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In total, more than 1200 volunteers served in the Legion. 730 of them received the medal
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Chrysovergis with thirty men were again sent into Sevastopol, to replace a contingent of
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The Balkan volunteers were barely formed when the Russian army, under the threat of an
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military corps formed by Greeks and other Balkan Christians that fought for the
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that his decision was mainly to ensure that they would not starve to death.
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caused much enthusiasm among the Christian populations living under the
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whose ammunition would be difficult to come by in the besieged city.
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In early February, the Greek Legion, some 700 strong, arrived at
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Command structure according to a list compiled in September 1854
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also demoralized many volunteers; about a hundred resigned.
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A squad of volunteers, and the priest-captain Papadoukas, by
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who had followed the Russian withdrawal from Moldavia to
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in the Crimea. At this time, a member of the princely
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Siege of Sevastopol
Russian
Crimean War
Ottoman Empire
Kingdom of Greece
irredentist
Megali Idea
Thessaly
Epirus
Macedonia
Piraeus
Danubian Principalities
Mikhail Dmitrievich Gorchakov
Brăila
Focșani
Galați

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