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

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was now entirely in the hands of the military party.
Zaimis, indeed, had left it and thrown in his lot with
the other primates; but Petrobey, after wavering
awhile, had definitely declared for Kolokotrones,
whose authority was now supreme. The legislative
committee, stripped of all power, had broken up; and
the remnant of it,
which had established itself in
Argos, now opened the struggle by sending to the executive
to demand a statement of accounts.
For only
reply, Petrobey sent a band of his Mainotes, who dealt
with the Hump of the legislative committee as Cromwell
had dealt with that of the Long Parliament. The
members thereupon fled to Kranidi, opposite the island
of Hydra, and put themselves under the protection of
the Hydriots. Greece was thus, at the end of 1823,
divided into three sections. In East Hellas, Odysseus
reigned supreme West Hellas was held ;
by Mavrocordatos
for the Government at Kranidi ;
while Kolokotrones,
established in Nauplia,
and in the Acrocorinthos,
which had surrendered on the 7th of November, 1
aimed at subjecting the Morea to military rule.
Thus far the violence of Kolokotrones seemed to
i It is pleasant to record that on this occasion the firmness
of Niketas prevented the capitulation being violated.
The Moslems were embarked on an Austrian ship, and allowed
to carry away their arms and a small sum of money.
See Gordon, ii. 71.