Brewer's: Leonidas of Modern Greece

Marco Bozzars, who with 1,200 men put to rout 4,000 Turco-Albanians, at Kerpenisi, but was killed in the attack (1823). He was buried at Missolonghi.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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