Nationality Greek | Occupation Soldier | |
Christoforos Zachariadis was fighter in the Greek Revolution of 1821,and was originally from Kyparissia. He participated in military operations in Moldavia and Wallachia initially and then later in Peloponnese. He worked with the "Committee of Zakynthos". Politically, he was considered to be a follower of the anglophile political party.
Biography
Christoforos or Christos Zachariadis was born in Kyparissia but was raised in Zakynthos. Later he moved to Odessa where he worked as a secretary in a commercial store. There, in 1820, he was initiated into the Filiki Eteria (Society of Friends), a secret 19th-century organization whose purpose was to overthrow the Ottoman rule of Greece and establish an independent Greek state. When the Revolution in the Danubian Principalities broke out, he was one of the founders of the Sacred Band in Focşani and then he served as an adjutant to the captain Giannakis Kolokotronis. On the 27th of May he took part in the battle against the Ottoman cavalry at the Notseti monastery and after the suppression of the revolution in Moldovlachia, he fled to Peloponnese, along with Giannakis and Apostolis Kolokotronis, Ioannis Petas and other fighters. He arrived in Peloponnese in August 1821 and took part in the battle of the Ditch, the siege of Tripolitsa and later in the battles during the siege of Patras.
In 1825 he was the bearer of the note of the "Zakynthos Commission", which was signed by Theodoros Kolokotronis, Andreas Zaimis, Andreas Miaoulis, Kanellos Deligiannis et al. With this document, they asked for the English protection. During the same period he was a representative of "Zakynthos Commission" in Nafplio. In fact, in September 1825, in a letter to the committee he accused the political conflicts between various clans. During the second siege of Missolonghi he acted as a spy in the Egyptian camp and managed to obtain important information, which he later transferred to the besieged.