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

52 THE WAR OF GREEK INDEPENDENCE
surgents, the Mussulman prisoners being everywhere
mercilessly put to the sword.
The conflagration now spread to the north of the
Gulf of Corinth. At the beginning of April the
Albanian Christians of Dervenakhoria * rose ;
and the
whole of Attica and Boeotia speedily followed suit.
Salona, instigated by the Klepht Panourias, threw off
the Ottoman yoke;
and, in Levadia, the Mussulmans
found themselves besieged by the Christian population
under the heroic Diakos. At the beginning of May,
the Mussulmans of Athens were surrounded in
Acropolis.
the
Missolonghi, a name afterwards so famous
in the history of the rising, did not declare itself till
June.
In the Morea meanwhile, at the beginning of
April, only a few of the Ottoman fortresses still held
out; and these were closely invested by
hordes of
savage warriors. Two thousand were blockading
Coron; three thousand others besieged Modon and
Navarino; four thousand had collected before Patras,
and ten thousand on the heights round Tripolitza.
Acrocorinthos was beset by eight thousand insurgents,
while three thousand of the wild tribesmen of the
Maina surrounded Monemvasia.
The last-named fortress was the first to fall,
i The ancient Meffaris.