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DIMITRI KALERGIS (DEMETRIOS) (1803-1867)

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 640 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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KALERGIS (DEMETRIOS) (1803-1867)  , See also:Greek statesman, was a Cretan by See also:birth, studied See also:medicine at See also:Paris and on the outbreak of the See also:War of Greek See also:Independence went to the Morea and joined the insurgents . He fought under See also:Karaiskakis, was taken prisoner by the See also:Turks before See also:Athens and mulcted of an See also:ear; later he acted as aide de See also:camp to the See also:French philhellene See also:Colonel Fabvier and to See also:Count See also:Capo d'See also:Istria, See also:president of See also:Greece . In 1832 he was promoted See also:lieutenant-colonel . In 1843, as See also:commander of a See also:cavalry See also:division, he was the See also:prime mover in the insurrection which forced See also:King See also:Otto to dismiss his Bavarian ministers . He was appointed military commandant of Athens and aide de camp to the king, but after the fall of the See also:Mavrocordato See also:ministry in 1845 was forced to go into See also:exile, and spent several years in See also:London, where he became an intimate of See also:Prince See also:Louis See also:Napoleon . In 1848 he made an abortive descent on the Greek See also:coast, in the See also:hope of revolutionizing the See also:kingdom . He was captured, but soon released and, after a stay in the See also:island of See also:Zante; went to Paris (1853) . At the instance of the Western See also:Powers he was recalled on the outbreak of the See also:Crimean War and appointed See also:minister of war in the reconstituted Mavrocordato See also:cabinet (18J4) . He was, however, disliked by King Otto and his See also:consort, and in See also:October 1855 was forced to resign . In 1861 he was appointed minister plenipotentiary in Paris, in which capacity he took an important See also:part in the negotiations which followed the fall of the Bavarian See also:dynasty and led to the See also:accession of Prince See also:George of See also:Denmark to the Greek See also:throne .

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