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

RENEWED ACTIVITY OF THE GREEKS 257
on her remaining passive, while the Ottomans continued
the war. As long, therefore, as the Turks maintained
their present attitude, the Greeks could reap,
unhindered, the full benefit of the coercive measures
of the Powers, which were necessarily directed against
that side only which had proved refractory.
Under these circumstances the war was carried
on by the Greeks with renewed activity.
An expedition
under Colonel Fabvier was sent to the longsuffering
island of Chios. Kriezotis and Karatasos
were commissioned to stir up a rebellion in Thessaly
and Macedonia. Crete was blockaded; and 2,000
Greek troops were landed at Grabusa to attempt once
more to fan into a flame the slumbering embers of revolt.
In Western Hellas several chiefs of Armatoli
were again in arms ;
and an expedition was sent, under
Church and Cochrane, to make an effort to reduce Missolonghi,
and obtain a foothold in Albania.
The enterprises of Kriezotis and of Fabvier ended
in quarrels and failure, the renewed rising of the
Cretans only in some months of useless bloodshed.
The expedition of Church and Cochrane, on the other
hand, was of more importance, not only in its
achievements, but because it led immediately
active intervention of the allied fleet
direct
to the
The plan was for Church to advance, with a small