Battle of Andros (1825)

1822–1824 Greek civil wars of 1824–1825 Egyptian intervention (1825–1826) Great powers intervention (1827–1829) The Battle of Andros took place on 1 June (20 May O.S.)

1825 at Andros between the fleets of the Ottoman Empire and Revolutionary Greece.

[2] The Greek fleet, under Georgios Sachtouris, comprising 20 warships and eight fireships, defeated the Ottoman fleet of 51 vessels by attacking and burning with two fireships the Ottoman flagship—a 66-gun double-banked frigate[1]—and another 34-gun frigate with another fireship.

The Ottoman fleet dispersed, allowing the Greeks to capture a sloop with its crew, as well as five Austrian cargo ships destined to support the Ottoman Siege of Missolonghi.

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