Battle of Samos

Battle of Samos
	Part of the Greek War of Independence
	; Artwork by Zografos and Makriyannis
Date	5 August 1824 (Julian calendar)
Location	Off Samos, Aegean Sea
Result	Greek victory
Belligerents
First Hellenic Republic	Ottoman Empire
Commanders and leaders
Georgios Sachtouris; Konstantinos Kanaris	Koca Hüsrev Mehmed Pasha
Casualties and losses
6 fireships spent; 3 dead	3 ships and 100 guns destroyed ; 1,000 killed

The Battle of Samos (Greek: Ναυμαχία της Σάμου) was a naval battle fought on August 5–17, 1824 off the Greek island of Samos during the Greek War of Independence.

^ ^a ^b Thomas Gordon, History of the Greek Revolution, T2, Blackwood, 1832, p. 148
^ Showalter, Tony Jaques. Foreword Dennis (2007). Dictionary of battles and sieges : a guide to 8500 battles from antiquity through the twenty-first century. Westport, Conn. [u.a.]: Greenwood Press. p. 893. ISBN 9780313335396.

[Gordon-p148-1] Thomas Gordon, History of the Greek Revolution, T2, Blackwood, 1832, p. 148

[2] Showalter, Tony Jaques. Foreword Dennis (2007). Dictionary of battles and sieges : a guide to 8500 battles from antiquity through the twenty-first century. Westport, Conn. [u.a.]: Greenwood Press. p. 893. ISBN 9780313335396.

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