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

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forcements, he spent
the rest of the summer in comparative
inactivity.
Kiutayeh, on the other hand, freed from the presence
of his hated rival, pushed the war with his accustomed
vigour. Western Hellas was soon pacified.
Many renowned chiefs of Armatoli, among them
Varnakiotes, who had taken part in the shameful
massacre of Vrachori early in the war, gave in their
submission ;
and in July the Turkish Commander was
free to push forward into Eastern Hellas. He occupied
the passes over the mountains without meeting
with serious resistance,
strengthened the garrison of
Thebes, and formed a junction with the forces of
Omer Yrioni in Euboea. The united army of the
Ottomans, 8,000 strong, with plentiful cavalry and
guns, then marched into Attica, before the ingathering
of the harvest.
Odysseus, the hero of so many exploits, who had
been supreme in this part of Greece during the earlier
phases of the struggle, was now no more; and, in the
Acropolis, his former lieutenant, Gouras, commanded
in his place.
The rule of Gouras, who now governed Eastern
Hellas in the name of the Greek State,
was that of
a brigand chief rather than of a civilised administrator.
His tyranny and exactions were worse than