Kolokotrones the Klepht and the Warrior. Sixty Years of Peril and Daring. An Autobiography

Kolokotrones the Klepht and the Warrior. Sixty Years of Peril and Daring. An Autobiography

ASIN: B01LPJNZW4
Paperback: 366 pages
Dimensions: 8.5 x 0.8 x 11 inches
Weight: 2.3 pounds
Language: English
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In 1834, Kolokotronis, along with his son, Gennaios Kolokotronis, tried to participate in an illegal conspiracy and was sentenced to death. King himself decided to pardon him and release him from the prison, after what to appoint him a general. In 1837 King awarded him with the Order of the Savior and appointed him a member of the State Council. In 1834, In his declining years, Kolokotronis learned to write in order to complete his memoirs, which became very popular in Greece and have been translated into many languages. He died in Athens in 1843. After his death, his extremely biased memoirs were published. "It was only after our uprising that all the Greeks were brought to communion. There were people who did not know a place more than a mile from their area.“

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