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

106 THE WAR OF GREEK INDEPENDENCE
and a whole day passed in inaction.
Then the absolute
impossibility of remaining longer in the barren
plain of Argolis forced him to move, and he determined
this time to attempt to force his way out by
the pass of Agionori. Once more the indiscipline and
greed of the Greeks proved the salvation of the Turks.
Kolokotrones had arranged, with Niketas and several
other chiefs, a plan for cutting
off the Ottoman retreat;
but this broke down, owing to the Armatoli
waiting to plunder the Turkish camp, while those who
reached the pass in time to intercept the Turks devoted
more attention to the Ottoman baggage than
to the Ottomans. With the loss of about a thousand
men and all his train, Dramali, breathless, footsore,
and bedraggled, at last reached Corinth.
Even at Corinth, however, the Ottomans were not
in safety; for the Greeks, encouraged by their unhoped-for
success, were hard on their heels. With the
aid of Odysseus, Kolokotrones closed all the passes,
and shut up the beaten army in Corinth. Starvation
and disease did the rest. Dramali himself died on the
9th of November, and only a miserable remnant of
his great host were at length taken off by a Turkish
fleet.
The collapse of Dramali's invasion decided the
fate of Nauplia.
The advance of the Turkish army