Lambros Koutsonikas

His grandfather Nikos, his father and his brother Thanassis were killed in 1804 in a battle against the Albanians of Ali Pasha of Yanina at the Seltsou monastery in Tzoumerka.

Lambros being a child that time, together with his mother and brother, were taken captives by Ali pasha's bands.

During the Revolution, he served in the Greek army and was promoted to the rank of pentakosiarchos (leader of 500 men).

He authored the General History of the Greek Revolution (Γενική Ιστορία της Ελληνικής Επαναστάσεως), published in 1863–64 in Athens.

[4] The name of his clan is mentioned in some of the Souliotic Songs, initially published by Claude Fauriel in 1823 and republished later by others.

Title page of the General History of the Greek Revolution by Lambros Koutsonikas, Athens 1863. [ 1 ]