Battle of Sphacteria
Part of theGreek War of Independence
The "Sortie of the Aris" through the entire Ottoman fleet's blockade of Navarino on 25 April 1825 byKonstantinos Volanakis
Date 8 May 1825 Location Sphacteria,Morea Eyalet,Ottoman Empire (nowMessenia,Greece) 36°55′48″N21°39′57″E / 36.9301°N 21.6657°E /36.9301; 21.6657 Result Egyptian victory
Belligerents
First Hellenic Republic	Egypt Eyalet
Commanders and leaders
Anastasios Tsamados † Anagnostaras † Alexandros Mavrokordatos	Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt
Strength
1,000[1] 8 ships	3,000 ~45 ships
Casualties and losses
350 dead[2]	Unknown

TheBattle of Sphacteria took place during theGreek War of Independence on 8 May 1825 inSphacteria between theEgyptian forces ofIbrahim Pasha and Greek forces led by CaptainAnastasios Tsamados along withAlexandros Mavrokordatos.

Commanding both a powerful army and navy, Ibrahim initiated attacks on bothPaliokastro and the island ofSphacteria. As a result, Mavrocordatos rushed to their defense while Captain Tsamados fromHydra held off Ibrahim's forces.^[3]

Ibrahim aimed to capture the strategic small island of Sfaktiria at the center of the bay. Fifteen hundred Egyptians landed on the island only to be met with resistance by Tsamados who led a small contingent of sailors and soldiers. Shot in the leg, Tsamados continued fighting until he was killed. During the battleSantorre di Santa Rosa was also killed.^[4]

The remaining Greek sailors with Mavrocordatos rushed back to their ship, theAris, and sailed through a bombardment of thirty-four ships. For four hours it was bombarded and the casualties entailed two dead along with eight wounded.^[5] Finally, the Greek fleet and theGreek brig Aris escaped the destruction after hours of fighting and bombardment.^[6]

Days after the battle, the Greeks surrenderedNeokastro to Ibrahim.

In a desperate action, admiralMiaoulis decided to attack and burn the Egyptian fleet atMethoni. Finally, usingfire ships, he succeeded to destroy 12 ships (including a corvette and a frigate), but it had no impact on Ibrahim, who now had the mainland base he wanted.^[7][8]

• Smith, William and Felton, Cornelius Conway.A History of Greece: From the Earliest Times to the Roman Conquest, with Supplementary Chapters on the History of Literature and Art. Hickling, Swan, and Brown, 1855.
• Paparigopoulos, K, History of the Greek Nation (Greek edition), vol. 6, p. 163-164

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