Konstantinos Giannias
Overview
 
Konstantinos Giannias was a Greek
Greece
Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....

 klepht
Klepht
Klephts were self-appointed armatoloi, anti-Ottoman insurgents, and warlike mountain-folk who lived in the countryside when Greece was a part of the Ottoman Empire...

 who operated in the Peloponnese. Giannias was born in Prostovitsa, a village now known as Drosia
Drosia, Achaea
Drosia is a Greek village in southern Achaea. Drosia is located south of Patras, west of Kalavryta, northwest of Tripoli, north of Lampeia and northeast of Pyrgos. The GR-33 is to the west. Alpochori had a 2001 population of was 382 for the village and 816 for the municipal district. The...

 in Achaia. He was the brother of Giannis Giannias.

He became a klepht at a very young age and ran a large klepht group mainly between 1787 until 1805 when he was founded under the leader by the name Zacharias, Together with the doctor and the lieutennant Tzimiko he done the first where he fought with Mahmud Bey from Mystras
Mystras
Mystras is a fortified town and a former municipality in Laconia, Peloponnese, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Sparti, of which it is a municipal unit. Situated on Mt...

 where he was trained and continuously left with his horse.
Quotations

[When the Allied forces fire on him] Why are you always messing with me. It's got to be a joke!

[Convincing Shimizu not to kill himself] We can die here, or we can continue fighting. Which would better serve the emperor?

[Letter to his wife] We soldiers dig. We dig all day. This is the hole that we will fight and die in. Am I digging my own grave?

[About Nishi's romancing skills] There are rumors about his womanizing...But there are no women left to woo.

[In response to a soldier saying death is honorable] Kashiwara died of honorable dysentery.

There is no use for a dead soldier.

Damn this island! The Americans can have it.

Do what is right because it is right.

If you want my honest opinion, General, the best thing to do would be to sink this island to the bottom of the sea.

I'm tired of sharing this cave with all of you, I'm a one-man show from now on.

 
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