Ioannis A. Miaoulis
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Ioannis A. Miaoulis was a Greek
Greece
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 naval officer. He was a relative of Antonios Miaoulis
Antonios Miaoulis
Antonios Miaoulis was a Greek politician and a revolutionary leader during the Greek War of Independence.-Biography:He was born on the island of Hydra and was the second son of the Hydriot admiral Andreas Miaoulis, a member of the historic Miaoulis family....

, a revolutionary leader
Greek War of Independence
The Greek War of Independence, also known as the Greek Revolution was a successful war of independence waged by the Greek revolutionaries between...

 and was a member of the Miaoulis
Miaoulis
The surname Miaoulis belongs to an illustrious family of Hydriot origin, whose original name was Vokos . Its members include:*Andreas Miaoulis, the most significant naval leader of the Greek War of Independence of 1821...

 family from Hydra
Hydra, Saronic Islands
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Biography

He was born in Piraeus
Piraeus
Piraeus is a city in the region of Attica, Greece. Piraeus is located within the Athens Urban Area, 12 km southwest from its city center , and lies along the east coast of the Saronic Gulf....

 in 1850. He was enrolled into the Navy Academy and teamed up as a second level in 1874. He was ranked up to a mark of a rear-admiral. During the Greco-Turkish War of 1897
Greco-Turkish War (1897)
The Greco-Turkish War of 1897, also called the Thirty Days' War and known as the Black '97 in Greece, was a war fought between the Kingdom of Greece and Ottoman Empire. Its immediate cause was the question over the status of the Ottoman province of Crete, whose Greek majority long desired union...

, he was ranked with a mark of lieutenant commander as a leader of the steamship Pineios. He also admirably from one of the navy leaders of the Great Powers, with the help from chiefs of Prince George of Greece of the torpedo's fate, made it over target boat Eta and captured the steamship Georgios of the Turkish shipping company "Hagi Daut Farkuh" which it got Turkish soldiers in the battle of Crete. Later on, he captured the sailboat ship which he entered the English pro-Turkish politician and journalist A. Bartlett, a autographer of the sultan' letter to the Turkish military leader of Crete Ethem Pasha
Ethem Pasha
Edhem Pasha was an Ottoman commander. He was the deputy of Gazi Osman Pasha during the siege of Plevna in 1877. He was the leading commander of the Ottoman army that defeated Greeks in Thessaly in the Greco-Turkish War...

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He died as a rear-admiral at the Salamina Navy Yard in 1913.
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