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The Evzones or Tsoliades Corps was officially founded in 1868 as the Presidential Guard of the Greek Army. During the First World War, the Evzones fought as a corps in the form of mountaineers with many of their numbers being emigrants, who returned on the outbreak of war to fight for Greece. By 1915 the Greek Army comprised 41 infantry regiments of which there were 33 line, 5 Evzone, and 3 Cretan.

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  • Σώμα των Εύζωνες
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  • The Evzones or Tsoliades Corps was officially founded in 1868 as the Presidential Guard of the Greek Army. During the First World War, the Evzones fought as a corps in the form of mountaineers with many of their numbers being emigrants, who returned on the outbreak of war to fight for Greece. By 1915 the Greek Army comprised 41 infantry regiments of which there were 33 line, 5 Evzone, and 3 Cretan.
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  • The Evzones or Tsoliades Corps was officially founded in 1868 as the Presidential Guard of the Greek Army. During the First World War, the Evzones fought as a corps in the form of mountaineers with many of their numbers being emigrants, who returned on the outbreak of war to fight for Greece. By 1915 the Greek Army comprised 41 infantry regiments of which there were 33 line, 5 Evzone, and 3 Cretan. During the Italian invasion of Greece, in the fighting on the lower slopes of Mount Morova (on November 5 1940), the 39th Evzones Regiment played a key part in defeating the Elite Italian vanguard from the Julia Division and supporting Bersaglieri Regiment in fierce hand-to-hand fighting near Kalamas River. On 22 November, another Evzones counterattack behind Italian lines threatened to cut off the escape route of General Giannini's Ferrara Division, forcing the Italian unit to retreat and nearly captured division headquarters in the process. On 3 December,the Evzones captured Platavourni Mountain, capturing 100 Bersaglieri in the attack. The victory by Greece over the Italian invaders was seized upon by the American and British press in an otherwise dark period for the Allied powers. Articles about the Evzones appeared by the hundreds in the Allied press with newspapers championing the Greek David against the Italian Goliath. During the German occupation of Greece, the Greek government created nine Evzone battalions (5,724 army officers and soldiers) which were headquartered in Athens and Amphissa, to combat Communist Partisans.
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