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

258 THE AVAR OF GREEK INDEPENDENCE
army of 1,400 men, from the Isthmus of Corinth along
the coast of the Gulf. Cochrane, meanwhile, with a
squadron of twenty-three ships, was to sail round the
Peloponnese, and, forming a junction with Church,
to carry him over to "Western Hellas. On the 10th of
September Cochrane anchored before Missolonghi.
Codrington, however, who, as stated above, had sailed
up from Navarino to watch his movements, forbade
him to disembark in Albania ;
and the original plan of
campaign had therefore to be abandoned. Cochrane
had to content himself with bombarding the fort of
Yasilidi, without, however, producing any impression.
He then returned to Syra in the Cyclades, leaving Captain
Hastings, with a small. squadron, to join Church
in the Gulf of Corinth.
Besides his own vessel, the steamship Karteria,
Hastings had under his command the Soter, commanded
by Captain Thomas, a couple of schooners and
two gunboats. On the 23rd of September the Soter,
accompanied by the schooners and gunboats,
ran the
gauntlet of the forts of Rhium, through the ' little
Dardanelles,' under a hot fire.
Hastings followed
soon after in the Kartcria, without suffering any
damage, and proceeded to reconnoitre the hostile fleet,
which was lying at anchor under the guns of several
shore batteries at Salona. He found it to consist of