Description

Bouboulina showed from a young age that she was courageous, determined, stubborn and rebellious, with a passion for the sea and freedom.

The two men she married at the age of 17 and 30, respectively, the captains of Spetses, Dimitrios Giannouzas and Dimitrios Bouboulis, lost their lives in naval battles with barber pirates.

During the pre-revolutionary times, Bouboulina, after coming in contact with the Friends and being initiated into the Society of Friends, began to buy weapons and ammunition from ports abroad, in preparation for the revolutionary struggle that would follow, financing and building the historic Corvette of Agamemnon which was later renamed “Spetses”.

In addition to the siege of Nafplio, Bouboulina took part in the naval blockade of Monemvasia, while her ships besieged Niokastro of Pylos and secured the supply of Galaxidi. Besides, her expeditionary force fought in Argos, Tripoli and Dervenakia.

After the occupation of Nafplio, in November 1822, Bouboulina settled there, on a piece of land granted to her in recognition of her services to the nation.

The national heroine passed away ingloriously and unexpectedly in 1825, without any more assets, but also bitter from the devastating civil strife and the catastrophic outcome of the Struggle after the landing of Ibrahim’s forces in the Peloponnese.

Bouboulina fell dead from the gun of an unknown man of Spetses, on May 22, 1825, at the home of her first husband, Dimitrios Giannouzas, after an argument with members of the Koutsis family.