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Greek Independence War hero Dionysius Vourvachis died on this day in 1827 Search for: Dionysius Vourvachis. He was killed on February 8, 1827 during the Battle of Kamatero. He was the cousin of the politician Andreas Metaxas. Vourvachis was born in 1787 in Kefalonia and his father, Sotirios Vourvachis, was a loyal friend of Napoleon I. His father offered Napoleon important services during the family settlement in Marseille . When Sotirios died in 1806, Napoleon I, protecting the rest of the family, introduced the young Dionysius to the military school of Fontainebleau. Being fully raised in France, he followed an important military career by participating with the French army from 1805 to 1815 in military operations in France, Italy and Spain in the context of the Napoleonic Wars.

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