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

GOVERNMENT OF KONDURIOTTES 133
he was at no pains to disguise.
1
Kolettes, who had
been physician to JUi Pasha, and combined a certain
amount of European culture with a thorough knowledge
of the best way to deal with barbarous or halfcivilised
people, was the only man of any capacity in
the new administration; and it was under his influence
that, to counteract the military preponderance of
Kolokotrones in the Morea, the Government now introduced
bands of Rumeliot and Bulgarian mercenaries,
who invaded the Peloponnese by way
of the
Isthmus, and treated it as an enemy's country. By
March 1824 the Government had everywhere the
upper hand, and Kolokotrones began to feel himself
hard pressed. Nauplia was closely invested; and a
Hydriot force, under Miaoulis, marched into Argolis,
seized the mills of Lerna, and captured Argos. Kolokotrones
himself was shortly afterwards defeated before
Tripolitza by the united forces of the Bulgarian
Hadji Christos and the Moreots; and, after one or
two more fights of less importance, was compelled to
open negotiations with the primates Zaimis and Londos.
Through their mediation, an arrangement was
ultimately come to by which Kolokotrones submitted
to
the Government, and surrendered Nauplia
in return
for an equivalent in money,
i
Gordon, ii. 191.