Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
June 25, 1823
Primary Source Reference:
Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 124
Notes:
The Chios massacre was a catastrophe that resulted in the death, enslavement, and refuging of about four-fifths of the total population of Greeks on the island of Chios by Ottoman troops, during the Greek War of Independence in 1822. At Chios, on the moonless night of 6–7 June 1822, forces under the command of Greek admiral Constantine Canaris (ca. 1790-1877) destroyed the flagship of (and killed) Nasuhzade Ali Pasha, Kapudan Pasha (Grand Admiral) of the Ottoman fleet, in revenge for the massacre.
