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

126 THE WAR OF GREEK INDEPENDENCE
Euboea, where he arrived in time to relieve Karystos,
then being besieged by Grisiotis. Thence he sailed
past Hydra, threw supplies into Coron and Modon, and,
on the 20th, landed some troops and a large sum of
money
at Patras. Instead,
however, of remaining on
the west coast of Greece to support the operations of
Mustai, he hastened back to the Dardanelles.
Yussuf Pasha had meanwhile opened the campaign
in East Hellas. Advancing
from Thessaly with
six thousand men, he marched into Phokis, occupied
Salona, and, driving the Greeks out of the passes of
Helikon and Parnassus, descended upon Levadia.
The Pasha of Euboea, at the same time, with eight
hundred horsemen, raided in the direction of Thebes^
and swept off the harvest. Odysseus now entrusted
the defence of the Acropolis to his lieutenant Gouras,
who had lately married a beautiful girl of Lidoriki,
1
and marched to occupy the defiles of Helikon, while
the Athenians took refuge in the island of Salamis.
The news of the Ottoman invasion had, moreover,
put an end for the time to the feuds in the Morea;
and Kolokotrones and Niketas now advanced to Megara
with a force of Moreots. Other bands also speedily
collected, and succeeded by a bold guerilla war in
driving the Turks back into the plain of the Kephisi
See p. 210.