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

GREEK VICTORY AT ARACHOVA
tinue the defence. On the 23rd they were encouraged
by the arrival of Kriezotes, who with 300 men had
cut his way through the investing force. Two months
later, Colonel Fabvier, with six hundred men, also
succeeded in entering the fortress, bringing with him
a supply of powder, but no provisions. As, however,
he was unable, in spite of all his attempts, to cut his
way out again, so large an additional force proved
a severe strain on the already somewhat straitened resources
of the garrison.
Meanwhile Karaiskakis was endeavouring to repeat,
against Kiutayeh in Attica, the plan which Kolokotrones
had used, in Argolis, so successfully against
Dramali. His design was to seize all the passes
between Eleusis and Marathon, in this way
to cut off
the Ottomans from their base of supplies, and so starve
them out of Attica. But Reshid was a better general
than Dramali; he saw the supreme importance of
keeping his communications open, and sent out in
good time a sufficient force to secure them. Karaiskakis
was beaten, and had for the present to give up
his plan. But though out-generalled by the Turkish
commander-in-chief ,
he gained over one of his lieutenants
a signal success, which did much to retrieve his
defeat, and revive the courage of the Greeks. On the
5th of December he succeeded in cutting off, in a