Antonios Mavromichalis was a Greek

Greeks

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 revolutionary, military officer and politician.

He was born in Mani

Mani Peninsula

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 to Pierros Mavromichalis, of the notable Mavromichalis

Mavromichalis

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 clan. He fought against Ali Pasha

Ali Pasha

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, and was captured and remained for years in Constantinople

Constantinople

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 as a Turkish hostage. He managed to escape however shortly before the outbreak of the Greek War of Independence

Greek War of Independence

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, subsequently participating in various battles. In 1823 he was named general of the rebels' irregular forces.

In 1830, he led a Maniot rebellion against Governor Ioannis Kapodistrias

Ioannis Kapodistrias

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. Under King Otto

Otto of Greece

Otto, Prince of Bavaria, then Othon, King of Greece was made the first modern King of Greece in 1832 under the Convention of London, whereby Greece became a new independent kingdom under the protection of the Great Powers .The second son of the philhellene King Ludwig I of Bavaria, Otto ascended...

, he joined the newly-created Greek Gendarmerie

Greek Gendarmerie

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 and later transferred to the regular army, reaching general rank. He served as Otto's aide-de-camp

Aide-de-camp

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 and was appointed a member of the Senate

Greek Senate

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 in 1847. In 1862, he was an MP for Kalamata

Kalamata

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He died in Kalamata in 1873. He had two sons, both Army officers: Periklis Pierrakos-Mavromichalis, and Georgios P. Mavromichalis, who was killed in 1897.