Battle of Nauplia
1822 CE.
Shown on the map at 37.333°, 22.917°.
The Battle of Nauplia, also known as the Battle of Spetses, was a series of naval engagements lasting from 8 to 13 September (O.S.) 1822 in the Gulf of Nauplia (Argolic Gulf) between the Greek Fleet and the Ottoman Navy during the Greek War of Independence. Although neither side sustained significant losses (according to general descriptions, it consisted of distant and ineffectual cannonade between the two fleets), the Ottomans withdrew after three failed attempts to break through the Greek fleet, and the battle is considered a Greek victory. The Ottoman fleet of eighty-four vessels under the command of Kara Mehmet Pasha (also known as Mohammed Ali) was sent to destroy Greek forces at Hydra and Spetses and to relieve the besieged Ottoman garrison at Nauplia (Nafplio). Admiral Andreas Miaoulis commanded the Greek fleet. Miaoulis based his strategy on an ancient Greek admiral, Themistocles, in the Battle of Salamis, hoping to lure the superior Ottoman fleet into a narrow strait to deprive it of its freedom of manoeuvre.
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