Nicolas Joseph Maison, 1st Marquis of Maison was a French military officer who served in the French Revolutionary Wars, the Napoleonic Wars, and as commander of the Morea expedition during the Greek War of Independence. He was made a Marshal of France in 1829 and served as Minister of War from 1835 to 1836.
Portrait by Léon Cogniet, 1835
Nicolas Joseph Maison, grenadier in the 1st battalion of Paris in 1792, by Léon Cogniet (1834)
Surrender of the Castle of Morea of Patras to General Nicolas Joseph Maison (by Jean-Charles Langlois)
Meeting of General Maison and Ibrahim Pasha at Navarino in September 1828 (by Jean-Charles Langlois)
The Morea expedition is the name given to the land intervention of the French Army in the Peloponnese between 1828 and 1833, at the time of the Greek War of Independence, with the aim of expelling the Ottoman-Egyptian occupation forces from the region. It was also accompanied by a scientific expedition mandated by the French Academy.
Meeting between General Maison and Ibrahim Pasha in Navarino in September 1828 (detail) (by Jean-Charles Langlois, 1838)
Delacroix, Greece on the Ruins of Missolonghi. This painting played an important role in the public opinion campaign in the West that led to an intervention.
The Battle of Navarino, on 20 October 1827, where the Allied naval forces (Britain, France and Russia) decisively defeated the Ottoman and Egyptian fleet
The Parthenon at the time of Lord Elgin
