CASUALTY RECORD // September 10, 1824
Battle of Gerontas
Estimated casualties — killed, wounded, captured, and missing — by side, with confidence labels per surviving record.
Casualties by side
1 sides catalogued · combined 1,300 estimated
Ottoman Empire
1,300
Medium-confidence figure
Battle context
The Battle of Gerontas was a Greek naval victory fought near the island of Leros in the southeast Aegean Sea during the Greek War of Independence. A Greek fleet of 75 ships, under Andreas Miaoulis and Dimitrios Papanikolis, defeated an Ottoman armada of 100 ships drawn from Egypt, Tunisia, and Tripoli, inflicting approximately 1,300 Ottoman casualties. The engagement demonstrated that the Greek naval forces could overcome a numerically superior composite Ottoman fleet that included North African contingents, which represented a significant maritime challenge to Greek control of Aegean waters. By blunting this multi-source Ottoman naval effort, the battle helped sustain Greek operational capacity at sea during a critical phase of the independence struggle.
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