Αλέξανδρος Σούτσος
Η Πυρπόλησις του Συστήματος από τον Κανάρη
I pyrpolisis tou Systimatos apo ton Kanari
Alexanros Soutsos
Κanari’s Burning of the System
Published by S. Pavlidis in Athens in 1862
Without any binding but with original paper wraps
Pages 29
First Rare Edition
20,5cm x 14cm (approx. 8,2inch. x 5,5inch.)
King Otto I, after his coronation, appointed Kanaris first as a 3rd class captain and then as an admiral. After the post-colonization of 1843, Kanaris became Minister of Marines in the government of Andreas Metaxas and then in the government of Ioannis Kolettis. In 1854 he became Minister of Marines in the government of Alexandros Mavrokordatos. Because his ideas became more and more anti-monarchist, in 1861 he refused the pension granted him by the Government. In the summer of 1862, Otto entrusted him with the formation of a government. Kanaris proposed a list of ministers, all of whom held almost revolutionary views, telling Otto that only with such a government and the monarchy would it be possible to save and order in the country to be maintained. But King Otto did not accept and gave the order to Ioannis Kolokotronis. Kanaris joined the opposition and after Otto’s eviction he became a member of the triad led by Dimitrios Voulgaris (along with Benizelos Rufos) that formed a temporary government.
