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I'm not Turkish, but I should probably change that name if it makes people think I am. Kolokotronis comes in for a bit more criticism on page 85 when a snotty

I'm not Turkish, but I should probably change that name if it makes people think I am. Kolokotronis comes in for a bit more criticism on page 85 when a snotty remark about the Greek people is attributed to him, and later someone tells D. Ypsilantis to kill him, but he is nowhere near the worst figure in the book by a long shot.

YeGoblynQueenne 4y ago
Oh! Sorry for assuming. Nothing wrong with being Turkish, just to be clear. I think Kolokotronis is the one figure from the Revolution that gives everyone the warm fuzzies in Greece. I've been to Nafplio as a child and shown the cell he was in, and told that a big hole in the wall was were he was digging himself out (probably apocryphal). To me he's dear because one of my ancestors was one of his chieftains (Giorgos Karachalios, executed by the Ottomans in the siege of Mega Spilaion, skinned alive according to family lore) and because I read his autobiography also as a kid. Like I say, we all have our heroes... > NB: I didn't mean that he turned aside from Tripolitsa, I meant I was leaving the subject aside. And thanks for that, because that one really hurts.