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

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174 THE WAR OF GREEK INDEPENDENCE Without having read Thucydides, or knowing anything of the immortal struggle between the Spartans and Athenians for the possession of the island, he realised that Sphakteria was the key of Navarino, and that the possession of this would involve in the end that of the fortress; and on his pointing this out to Ibrahim, the Egyptian commander ordered him to take possession of the island. The Greeks, too, had realised, though late, the extreme importance of this position, had hastily occupied it with a few hundred troops, and erected a couple of weak batteries. They had, however, forgotten, what the Spartans had learned to their cost two thousand years before, that Sphakteria could only be held by the Power commanding the sea. The Greek fleet had, as usual, been delayed by the selfishness and insubordination of the Hydriot seamen, and in the harbour were only five brigs; and when, therefore, on the 8th of May, the Egyptian fleet of ninety sail entered the bay, all hope was lost of holding Sphakteria or saving Navarino. Under cover of a heavy cannonade from the Egyptian ships, Hussein landed, with a regiment of Arab regulars and Moreot Mussulmans, on the southern point of the island, and at once advanced to the assault of the Greek entrenchments. Again the Greeks fled, almost without striking a blow, before the Arab bay-
FALL OF PYLOS AND NAVARINO 175 onets; and only the brave Hydriot captain Tsammados, with two or three others, among whom was the gallant Piedmontese exile Santa Rosa, died at their posts. Of the others, Mavrocordatos and Sachtouris, the governor of ^Navarino, succeeded in escaping on board a Greek vessel. Some 200 Greeks were taken the latter be- prisoners, and about 350 slain, amongst ing the Klepht Anagnostaras. Scarcely three days after the occupation of Sphakteria by the Egyptians, Pylos capitulated; and the 800 men of the garrison were allowed to depart, after laying down their arms. Ibrahim now also offered honourable terms to the garrison of Navarino, and in spite of the strenuous opposition of George Mavromichales, afterwards the assassin of Capodistrias, the unexpected clemency of the Egyptian commander to the garrison of Pylos had its due effect, and the Rumeliot Armatoli insisted on the surrender of the place. In view of the hideous scenes which had been enacted at Navarino a few years before, the Greeks may well have had some doubt as to whether the capitulation would, in their case, be strictly observed. Among the crowd, through which they would have to pass on their way to the ships on which they were to be embarked, were the fathers, husbands, and brothers of the unfortunate Mussulmans who had been massacred and
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PREFACE THIS little book makes no p
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CONTENTS CHAPTER I Continuity of th
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CONTENTS ix CHAPTER VI Death of Eli
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CONTENTS XI Critical position of Re
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CONTENTS Xlli the battle on the Pow
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CHAPTEK IV The rising in the Morea
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INDEX ABERDEEN, Lord, and Admiral C
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101; taken by Dramali, 102; Odysseu
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his dependence on Russia, 357; atte
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vade Greece, 98, 100; takes Athens
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INDEX 415 lished, 226; renewed anar
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Ibrahim in the Bay of, 154, 166; 30
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