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

us well! '
IBKAIIIM TAKES TRIPOLITZA 179
Such was the heroic end of one who had
hitherto been mainly known as a dissolute priest and
a dishonest politician.
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This exploit of Dikaios revived the drooping courage
of the Greeks; and when Kolokotrones, raised
from his prison to the supreme command, took the
field, he made his dispositions with a certain confidence.
But in generalship he was no match for Ibrahim. The
rapid movements of the Egyptians bewildered those
who had been accustomed to the dilatory methods of
Turkish warfare.
Kolokotrones had occupied the pass
of Makryplagi,
to bar the road to Tripolitza; but
Ibrahim outflanked him, advanced on the town, and
took without it,
meeting with any serious opposition.
He hoped from this base, by a rapid movement, to
secure Nauplia, before it could be put into a state of
defence;
but at the mills of Lerna, which were occupied
by some 250 Greeks, under Makriyanni, Constantine
Mavromichales, and Hypsilanti, he met with so
stout a resistance, that he realised the impossibility of
seizing Nauplia without a regular siege;
and, as at the
present moment he was not prepared to undertake
this, he returned to Tripolitza.
Kolokotrones now hoped to repeat in the case of
Ibrahim the strategy which he had once employed so
i Mendelssohn, i. 357.