enter Athens, 1922 The Greek Army had
just been defeated in the
Asia Minor Campaign and had been evacuated from
Anatolia to the Greek islands in the eastern Aegean. Discontent among the middle-ranking officers and men for the campaign's conduct by the royal government boiled over into armed revolt led by pro-
Venizelist and anti-royalist officers. The mutiny spread quickly and seized power in Athens, forcing King
Constantine I to abdicate and leave the country, with a military government ruling the country until early 1924, shortly before the
Greek monarchy was abolished and the
Second Hellenic Republic established. The defeat of the Greek forces in Anatolia had alarmed the people and caused them to ask for the punishment of those responsible for the defeat. The government of
Petros Protopapadakis resigned and on 28 August, the new government headed by
Nikolaos Triantafyllakos. On 11 September a revolution was declared, with the formation of a Revolutionary Committee headed by Colonel
Nikolaos Plastiras as representative of the army in
Chios, Colonel
Stylianos Gonatas as representative of the army in
Lesvos and Commander
Dimitrios Fokas as representative of the navy. The next day, the troops boarded their ships and headed to
Athens. Before they arrived there, a military aeroplane delivered a manifesto that was asking the resignation of King Constantine I, the dissolution of the Parliament, the formation a new politically independent government that would have the support of the alliances of the
Entente and the immediate reinforcement of the battlefront in
Eastern Thrace. On 13 September, the ships with the Greek army arrived in
Lavrio and the next day, King Constantine resigned and went into exile in
Italy. His son,
George II, was declared king. On 15 September, the troops of revolution entered the city of Athens and blocked the efforts
Theodoros Pangalos was making to take advantage of the situation and take control of the government. Soon a new government was formed, with
Sotirios Krokidas as chairman. ==See also==