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'{{Infobox military person |name=Constantin Denis Bourbaki |birth_date=1787 |death_date= 8 February 1827 |birth_place=[[Cefalonia]], [[Republic of Venice]] |death_place=[[Kamatero]], [[First Hellenic Republic|Greece]] |allegiance=[[France]] and [[Greece]] |rank=[[Colonel]] |battles=[[Greek War of Independence]]<br/>[[Battle of Kamatero]] 1827 }} [[Colonel]] '''Constantin Denis Bourbaki''' ({{lang-el|Διονύσιος Βούρβαχης}}, '''Dionysios Vourvachis'''), (1787 &ndash; 8 February 1827) was a [[Greek people|Greek]] officer educated in France, and serving in the French military. He fought in the last phases of the [[Napoleonic Wars]], and after 1825, joined the [[Greek War of Independence]]. He was killed in 1827 following his defeat at the [[Battle of Kamatero]]. He is the father of French General [[Charles Denis Bourbaki]]. lol ==Biography== ===Early life=== Bourbaki was born on the island of [[Cefalonia]] in 1787. He was the son of [[Konstantinos-Sotirios Vourvachis]], a Greek of [[Crete|Cretan]] extraction who was forced to relocate to Cephallonia. Thanks to his father's influence with [[Napoleon I of France|Napoleon]], he was able to join the military academy at [[Fontainebleau]] (which was later relocated to [[École Spéciale Militaire de Saint-Cyr|St Cyr]]). He graduated from the academy in 1804. ===Career under Napoleon and retirement=== Following his graduation, he took part in several conflicts of the [[Napoleonic Wars]], and was appointed [[aide-de-camp]] to [[Joseph Bonaparte]], who had been appointed [[King of Spain]] by Napoleon. However, following the Emperor's exile to [[Elba]], he resigned his commission in the military. After [[Hundred Days|Napoleon's return to France]], he resumed active duty with the rank of [[colonel]], but he resigned again after the defeat at [[Battle of Waterloo|Waterloo]] and the [[House of Bourbon|Bourbon]] restoration in 1815. In the following years, he left France for Spain due to a duel, but was expelled soon afterwards for his anti-monarchist views. He retired to the town of [[Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques|Pau]], in the French [[Pyrenees]]. ===Service during the Greek War of Independence=== Following the outbreak of the [[Greek War of Independence|Greek Revolution]] in 1821, Bourbaki initiated contact with the [[Philhellenism|philhellenic]] groups of [[Paris]]. In 1825, he was involved in an attempt to secure the Greek throne for [[Prince Louis, Duke of Nemours|Louis, Duke of Nemours]], second son of [[Louis-Philippe of France|Louis-Philippe, Duke of Orléans]]. In 1826, he was sent to Greece as the head of a number of French volunteers, and intended to place himself under the command of [[Georgios Karaiskakis]]. He received a negative reaction from the [[English Party (Greece)|anglophile]] government in [[Nafplion]]. Nevertheless, he recruited a body of 80 men at his own expense, and joined Greek chieftains [[Vasos Mavrovouniotis]] and Panayotis Notaras. The three bodies advanced in unison into [[Attica]] in January, 1827, with the intent of relieving the Greek garrison besieged at the [[Acropolis]] in [[Athens]]. The force, numbering about 500 men in total, and under the command of Bourbaki, advanced to [[Eleusis]] in February, and faced the Ottomans at the [[Battle of Kamatero]] on 8 February (27 January in the [[Julian calendar]]). Bourbaki insisted on facing the Ottomans in an organised formation, despite opposite opinions by the Greek chieftains, and his force was decimated by the Ottoman cavalry. He was captured, and beheaded later the same day. ==Memorials== Vourvachis street in [[Kamatero]] is named after Bourbaki in honour of his heroic death on the town's premises. Moreover, the municipality has occasionally held games in his honour, called the Vourvachia ({{lang|el|Βουρβάχεια}}), with varying success. ==References== {{no footnotes|date=June 2016}} {{Reflist|30em}} *Whitcombe, T. D. ''Campaign of the Falieri and Piraeus in 1827'' (edited by C. W. J. Eliot) Town House Press Inc., Pittsboro, North Carolina, 1992. {{Greek War of Independence}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Bourbaki, Constantin Denis}} [[Category:1787 births]] [[Category:1827 deaths]] [[Category:People from Cephalonia]] [[Category:Eastern Orthodox Christians from Greece]] [[Category:Members of the Church of Greece]] [[Category:Greek colonels]] [[Category:French military personnel of the Napoleonic Wars]] [[Category:Greek people of the Greek War of Independence]] [[Category:Greek emigrants to France]] [[Category:French colonels]] [[Category:Greek military personnel killed in action]]'