page_title: Battle of Gravia Inn
section_title: Battle
hierarchical_section_title: Battle of Gravia Inn / Battle
caption_attribution_description: Odysseas Androutsos (1790-1825) Painting by Dionysios Tsokos. National Historical Museum, Athens.
context_page_description: The Battle of Gravia Inn was fought between Greek revolutionaries and the Ottoman Empire during the Greek War of Independence. The Greek leader, Odysseas Androutsos, with a group of 120 men repulsed an Ottoman army numbering 8,000 men and artillery under the command of Omer Vrioni. The battle end up with the Ottomans having a lot of loses and the Greeks having minimal casualties.
  The Ottoman army under the command of Omer Vrioni, following his defeat of the Greeks at the Battle of Alamana and the execution of their leader Athanasios Diakos, planned to attack the Peloponnese with an army of 8,000 men. However, his army was met by a Greek group numbering 120 men, under the command of Odysseas Androutsos, who had barricaded themselves inside an old inn. The Ottoman army surrounded the area and attacked the inn but were thrown back with heavy losses. At night, while the Ottoman army paused their attacks to bring up some cannons in order to knock down the inn, the Greeks got out of the inn silently and found safety in the mountains before the cannons arrive.
context_section_description: As soon as Vrioni ordered the attack, a detachment of Albanian soldiers charged the building. As they entered the building they were met by a barrage of gunfire. The Albanians were forced to retreat under heavy fire and suffered many casualties from the concealed Greeks. Androutsos had trained his men to fire with a European method; a group of his soldiers was firing in unison, while another group was filling their own guns to fire in their place and so forth. This method was the best way of facing any kind of massive attack, so the following Ottoman assaults also met a barrage of fire and were forced to retreat.
  Vrioni, angered by the losses he was suffering, ordered the cannons to be brought from Lamia. However, Androutsos had guessed his intentions and retreated with his men at night; they got out of the inn and they escaped to the mountains, while the Albanians were asleep.
caption: Odysseas Androutsos
exif: {"Image SubfileType": "Full-resolution Image", "Image ImageWidth": "357", "Image ImageLength": "451", "Image BitsPerSample": "[8, 8, 8]", "Image Compression": "LZW", "Image PhotometricInterpretation": "2", "Image ImageDescription": "\u00054.1.2", "Image StripOffsets": "[8, 12012, 24162, 35818, 47350, 58782, 70819, 83149, 95523, 108095, 120912, 133388, 145946, 158967, 172098, 184877, 197424, 210093, 222606, 235212, 247881, 260600, 273278, 285589, 298576, 312437, 326662, 341010, 355331, 369670, 384164, 398499, 412823, 427260, 441554, 455539, 469341, 482617, 495762, 508616, 521281]", "Image SamplesPerPixel": "3", "Image RowsPerStrip": "11", "Image StripByteCounts": "[12004, 12150, 11656, 11532, 11432, 12037, 12330, 12374, 12572, 12817, 12476, 12558, 13021, 13131, 12779, 12547, 12669, 12513, 12606, 12669, 12719, 12678, 12311, 12987, 13861, 14225, 14348, 14321, 14339, 14494, 14335, 14324, 14437, 14294, 13985, 13802, 13276, 13145, 12854, 12665, 11778]", "Image XResolution": "252", "Image YResolution": "252", "Image PlanarConfiguration": "1", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Image Predictor": "None", "Image DotRange": "[0, 255]", "Image IPTC/NAA": "[540, 469893122, 100694018, 825111557, 12846]", "Image Tag 0x8649": "[]"}