November 1, 2022
Turns out that Bouboulina has also been immortalized as a Playmobil playset. That’s how you know you’ve made it. Bouboulina’s granddaughter was a chip off the old block. During World War II she established an organization to smuggle Allied servicemen out of occupied Greece, along with bits of intelligence. Like most Resistance heroes, she was […]
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October 31, 2022
Behold Bouboulina, sea-captain, freedom fighter, and the first woman ever appointed an admiral (and in two navies, Russian and Greek!). I encountered this statue on the island of Spetses, where her house has been turned into a museum by her descendants, who still own it. She was born in a Turkish prison in 1771, where […]
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