Since 1821, the Greek War of Independence was raging in Greece, which had not left Voulgaris indifferent: in 1825 he wrote in his "Souvenirs": "Grecs, aux armes! aux armes!", after learning of Lord Byron's death at Missolonghi. In October 1827, Ioannis Kapodistrias, recently elected as the first governor of independent Greece, went to Paris to ask the French government for advisers and French army officers to organise the army of the new Greek state. On the recommendation of the French Ministry of War, Voulgaris and three other officers (the captains of artillery Jean-Henri-Pierre-Augustin Pauzié, of the topographic service Pierre Peytier, and of the engineers Auguste-Théodore Garnot) were sent to Greece in 1828 to train young Greek military engineers. They were all four attached to the general staff of General Maison, commander-in-chief of the Morea military expedition, whose mission was to liberate the Peloponnese from the Turkish-Egyptian occupation troops of Ibrahim Pasha. The artillery captain Pauzié founded the Artillery School (Σχoλή Πυρoβoλικoύ) and then the Central Military Academy of the Evelpides (Κεντρική Στρατιωτική Σχολή Ευελπίδων) in 1828 on the model of the French École Polytechnique. Captain Peytier drew the first modern .