THE WAR OF GREEK INDEPENDENCE 1821 TO 1833 BY W.ALISON PHILLIPS 1897

98 THE WAR OF GREEK INDEPENDENCE
that, while the latter advanced by Western Hellas on
Missolonghi, with a view to capturing this, and crossing
thence to Patras, the main army under Khurshid's
direction should force the Isthmus, advance to the relief
of Nauplia, where it was to be met by the Ottoman
fleet, and march thence on Tripolitza. Here it was
to establish its headquarters, in the very centre of the
Arcadian plain; and it was judged that if the fleet
threw supplies into the fortresses of Coron, Modon,
and Patras, communications with these could be easily
established, and that the Morea being thus cut up into
several sections, the population, deprived of mutual
support, would be reduced to submit before the winter.
1
As the spring advanced, Dramali, to
command of the expedition was given,
whom the
was ordered
by Khurshid to push on into the valley of the Spercheios,
and there review his troops. Before this was
effected, an attempt was made, under the leadership of
Odysseus, to destroy the Turkish troops in Zeituni.
The plan had been devised by the Areopagus, and its
failure, due to various causes, led to the relations between
that body and the masterful Klepht becoming
somewhat strained. An attempt was made to remove
Odysseus from his command in East Hellas;
whereupon
he immediately resigned his commission in the
i Mohamet Ali Pasha of Drama.