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

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66 THE WAR OF GREEK INDEPENDENCE Not even a Nelson, however, could have kept discipline in a fleet of which each ship was a democratic community in whose management every common seaman had a voice. The Greek war vessels were in fact little better than pirates; and the war at sea became, in its want of plan and in its incidents of horror, a counterpart of that on land. A single instance may suffice. Two Hydriot brigs, commanded by Sachtouris and Pinotzi, captured a Turkish ship laden with a valuable cargo, and carrying a number of passengers. Among these was a recently deposed Sheik-ul-Islam, or patriarch of the Orthodox Mussulmans, who was said to be going on pilgrimage to Mecca, accompanied by all his family. He was known to have belonged to the tolerant party in the Ottoman Government; and, indeed, it was his efforts to prevent the cruel reprisals which, at Constantinople, followed the news of the massacres at Galatz, Yassy, and in the Morea, which had brought him into disfavour, and caused his exile. families on board. There were also several other Turkish The Hydriots murdered all in cold blood; helpless old men, ladies of rank, beautiful slaves, and little children were butchered on deck like cattle. The venerable old man, whose crime had been an excess of zeal on behalf of the Greeks, was forced to see his family outraged and murdered before his
MURDER OF THE SHEIK-UL-ISLAM 67 eyes, for, with a refinement of cruelty, lie was spared ' to the last. An attempt was afterwards made to extenuate this unmerciful conduct, by asserting that it was an act of revenge. This assertion is false. Those who perpetrated these cruelties did not hear of the execution of their Orthodox patriarch until after they had murdered the Orthodox patriarch of their enemies. The truth is that, both by land and sea, the war commenced as a war of extermination. Fanatical pedants talked of reviving the glories and the cruelties of classic times as inseparable consequences of Greek liberty. They told how the Athenians had exterminated the inhabitants of Melos, and how the Spartans had put all their Athenian prisoners to death after their victory at Aegospotamos.' * The capture of this valuable prize was of little service to the Greek cause which the cruelty that attended it had sullied ; for the sailors refused, on their return to Hydra, to share the booty in accordance with the national rules, and insisted on keeping it all to themselves. This provoked such bitterness of feeling that the fleet was for the time broken up, and no united action against the Turks was possible. Meanwhile the Ottoman Government had been thrown into the greatest difficulties by i Finlay, i. 215. the revolt of
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PREFACE THIS little book makes no p
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CONTENTS CHAPTER I Continuity of th
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CONTENTS XI Critical position of Re
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CONTENTS Xlli the battle on the Pow
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INDEX ABERDEEN, Lord, and Admiral C
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his dependence on Russia, 357; atte
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vade Greece, 98, 100; takes Athens
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INDEX 415 lished, 226; renewed anar
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