Georgakis Kapsokalyvas

Georgakis Kapsokalyvas (born c. 1800) was a fighter of the Greek Revolution.

Biography

He was a native of Zatouna in the eparchy of Karytaina. An excellent captain, he led soldiers under the command of Theodoros Kolokotronis and Dimitris Plapoutas. Saying that "rifles weren't made for shooting the sky but for killing the enemies", he trained his men to fight quietly and carefully in order not to waste ammunition, and he honoured the soldiers who killed the most Turks.

Sources

• Photios Chrysanthopoulos, ed. (1888). Βίοι Πελοποννησίων ανδρών και των εξώθεν εις την Πελοπόννησον ελθόντων κληρικών, στρατιωτικών και πολιτικών των αγωνισαμένων τον αγώνα της επαναστάσεως (in Greek). Athens: Σταύρος Ανδρόπουλος, Τυπογραφείο Π. Δ. Σακελλαρίου. Retrieved 10 April 2010.