Petros Mengous dating history

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Petros Mengous (Greek: Πέτρος Μέγγους; (1802- ) was a Greek soldier, pirate, author, and educator. He fought in the Greek War of Independence for over five years and migrated to the United States, where he wrote a narrative of his experience, telling the American people about the horrors of the Greek War in the book Narrative of a Greek Soldier published in 1830. Petros spoke Modern and Classical Greek, Arabic, Italian, and French. He eventually taught at the Mount Pleasant Classical Institute with Gregory Anthony Perdicaris. American missionary Jonas King married his sister Anna Aspasia Mengou on the Island of Tinos, where King built his first women's school.