"Military School of Hopes"

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The Military School of Euclids (S.S.E.) is a High Military Educational Foundation (ASEI) of the Greek Land Army. It was founded in Nafplio on 1 July 1828 by decree of John Kapodistrias as an officer school.

For some time (1894–1982), it was based in facilities north of the Areos Field in Athens, where today the Athens Court of First Instance is housed, outside the old Administrative Court, in which the School of National Defence is currently housed. In 1982 she moved to her current camp in Vari. There are barracks, modern building facilities, outdoor areas of education and sport, as well as the School Museum.

Attendance at the Elpida School (one of the so-called "productive schools" in the terminology of the Armed Forces) lasts four years and the Elepides graduate with the rank of Lieutenant. In recent years, enrollment in the School of Domestic Students has followed the system of Panhellenic exams alongside tests and sports performance. Foreign students – foreign Armed Forces officials – also attend S.S.E.

Establishment - History
In 1828 John Kapodistrias wanting to frame the Army Regular Corps with capable officials, went on by decree to establish a military school which he also named the Military School of Hopes. As a model he set the French Polytechnique, created by Napoleon I. He entrusted the supervision of the formation and organization to Bavarian Colonel Carl Wilhelm von Heideck (Karl Wilhelm von Heideck, 1788–1861), who was at the time director of the Tactical Army.
Kapodistrias himself named the first five students "Epidides".

On 1 July 1828 the School was founded in Nafplio under the temporary title "Local of the pre-sightful gymnasts", while its address was assigned to Italian lieutenant Romulus de Santelli, who proved inadequate for such an undertaking. So that same year Kapodistrias replaces him with French Artillery captain Henri Pozier. The first eight Artillery Lieutenants graduated in 1831, in which Kapodistrias himself wore the shoulder pads. In 1831 Kapodistrias appoints Russian Lieutenant-Colonel Artillery Lieutenant-Colonel Nicholas Raikov to the post of School director.

The government's goal was to train public engineers who would undertake state technical projects and then projects to fortify the country.
The duration of the training was set at 3 years. In 1834 the years of study were increased to 8 and more courses were added, and students aged 12 were introduced.

In the same year the school was transferred to Aegina, to the building of the Kapodistrian Orphanage, while in 1837 in Piraeus, just opposite the Old Post Office, (now a cultural centre) in the building that exists to date. In 1840 Lieutenant Colonel Spyros Milos, the first Greek director, took charge of the school. Directly implements new Internal Service Regulation, increases to