Georgakis Kapsokalyvas

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

Biography

Kapsokalyvas was a native of Zatouna in the eparchy of Karytaina. An excellent captain,^{[according to whom?]} 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,"^{[citation needed]} Kapsokalyvas trained his men to fight quietly and carefully in order not to waste ammunition, and he made the soldiers compete to see who would kill 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.