Cretan revolt (1866–1869)

Great Cretan Revolution
	Part of the Cretan revolts
	; The hegumen Gavriil gathering the besieged at Arkadi Monastery
Date	21 August 1866 – 20 January 1869
Location	Eyalet of Crete, Ottoman Empire (now Crete, Greece)
Result	Ottoman-led victory Suppression of the revolt;
Belligerents
Greek Revolutionaries; Supported by:; Kingdom of Greece	Ottoman Empire; Egypt
Commanders and leaders
Michail Korakas; Gavriil Marinakis †; Ioannis Zymvrakakis; Konstantinos Giaboudakis †; Panos Koronaios; Ioannis Dimakopoulos †	Mustafa Naili Pasha; Osman Nuri Pasha ; Omar Pasha ; Ismail Selim Pasha ; Shaheen Pasha ; Ahmed Rashid Pasha
Strength
Few thousands	15,000 Ottomans ; 20,000 Egyptians
Casualties and losses
Unknown	Unknown ; 1,333 killed and wounded

The Cretan revolt of 1866–1869 (Greek: Κρητική Επανάσταση του 1866) or Great Cretan Revolution (Μεγάλη Κρητική Επανάσταση) was a three-year uprising in Crete against Ottoman rule, the third and largest in a series of Cretan revolts between the end of the Greek War of Independence in 1830 and the establishment of the independent Cretan State in 1898.