Battle of Kastella

Battle of Kastella
	Part of Greek War of Independence
	; Yannis Makriyannis defending Piraeus (painting by Peter von Hess)
Date	29 January 1827 – 30 January 1827
Location	Kastella, Piraeus
Result	Greek victory
Belligerents
First Hellenic Republic	Ottoman Empire
Commanders and leaders
Yannis Makriyannis; Ioannis Notaras ; Dimitrios Kallergis; Thomas Gordon	Reşid Mehmed Pasha
Strength
2.000 Klephts and Αrmatoloi 400 regular army, 15 cannons	About 3.000 (infantry and cavalry) 4-6 cannons
Casualties and losses
60 dead	300 dead and wounded

Battle of Kastella was a military engagement during the Greek revolution of 1821 with a victorious outcome for the Greeks, in the context of Reşid Mehmed Pasha’s expedition in Attica which had as its ultimate goal the occupation of the Acropolis.

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