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

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tige by another victory, repulsing Omer Yrioni from
Distomo, with the loss of all his baggage and artillery.
These and other lesser successes made him appear invincible
to the wild tribesmen.
who had but lately submitted to Kiutayeh, once
The chiefs of Armatoli,
more changed their fickle allegiance, and joined the
Greek leader with all their forces. Beyond the immediate
reach of Reshid's army, and excepting Missolonghi,
Anatoliko, Lepanto, and Vonitza, all continental
Greece was now again restored to the Hellenic
cause.
Karaiskakis had more than justified the confidence
reposed in him.
Meanwhile, however, new actors had appeared
upon the scene. The Hellenic Government was now
almost wholly dependent on the sympathy of the
Philhellenes of Europe for the means of carrying on
the war;
and in the first outburst of despair that followed
the fall of Missolonghi,
it had even been proposed
in the National Assembly to place Greece
formally under the protection of England. The
timely
arrival of General Gordon with a sum of
14,000?. alone saved the country
the help of this sum a fleet of sixty
from ruin. With
vessels of war and
twenty-one fire-ships had been fitted out, the regular
troops reorganised under Colonel Fabvier, and some
nine thousand Armatoli taken into the pay of the