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

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way back over the Isthmus, and finally joined Gardikiotis
Grivas in Missolonghi.
Kallergis had again advanced
on the capital;
and Kolokotrones now had an
interview with Admirals Ricord and Hotham in Nauplia,
in which he demanded the reconstruction of the
Government.
Conferences and intrigues followed, in
which Kolettes was supported by the French, while
the party of Kolokotrones had the sympathy of the
Russians and English. In the end, Kolettes was left
nominally in possession, sharing the government with
two colleagues. But his rule was in fact confined to
the town of Nauplia.
Outside the walls Kolokotrones
governed the whole of Greece and the Morea at least
;
was regularly apportioned among his captains. As
though to put the finishing touch to the spectacle of
utter impotence presented by
the nominal Government
in Nauplia, the Committee of Regency quarrelled
with the Senate, and the latter fled to Astros.
The year 1832 had been the most miserable of all
the war;
the Greeks had suffered more from the
cruelty and rapine of their own countrymen than in
all
the Ottoman invasions, more even than they had
endured at the hands of the armies of Ibrahim;
and
now, at the end of the year, the country was utterly
exhausted, and both parties were wearied out with the
suicidal strife. The high-sounding principles pro-