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

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ships had fewer terrors for the well-trained Egyptian
seamen than for the ill-disciplined Turks. Where the
latter had fallen into panic and confusion at the approach
of the dreaded engines of destruction, the
Egyptians simply manoauvred out of their way, and
allowed them to drift harmlessly to leeward ;
or, if by
chance they succeeded in attaching themselves, cut
them adrift before they could do any damage.
From
this time forward, the superiority at sea which the
Greeks had owed to their skill in this particular form
of warfare began to decline; and such successes as
they gained later in the war were due more often to
their possession of the steamer Kartcria, purchased
on the advice of the Philhellene Captain Hastings, and
to their use of heavy ordnance and charges of red-hot
shot.
On the 10th of September, the Ottoman fleet again
stood out from Budrun, and a battle followed in which
the Greeks obtained slightly the advantage. A Turkish
frigate and a corvette were destroyed by fire-ships;
and these losses so terrified the Turks, that they hauled
off, and both fleets returned to their former anchorages.
The Greeks, however, though they had inflicted
considerable loss upon the enemy, had only
done so at great cost to themselves;
for some of their
own vessels had been destroyed, and many fire-ships
had been sacrificed in vain.
Their success, therefore,