 | William Martin Leake - 1826 - 222 pagine
...himself having, by order of the Porte, joined the army before loannina, leaving his family at Tripolitza. The Greeks at first were very inferior in numbers...several chieftains, they occupied the slopes of Mount Meenalus. By degrees they approached nearer to the walls, took advantage of the cover afforded by the... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - 1826 - 652 pagine
...himself having, by order of the Porte, joined the army before loannina, leaving his family at Tripolitza. The Greeks at first were very inferior in numbers...several chieftains, they occupied the slopes of Mount Mamalus. By degrees they approached nearer to the walls, took advantage of the cover afforded by the... | |
 | 1826 - 696 pagine
...himself having, by order of the Porte, joined the army before loannina, leaving his family at Tripolitza. The Greeks at first were very inferior in numbers...opponents had a formidable cavalry, and few of the Creeks were yet superior to that innate dread of their late masters, which had made them, on some late... | |
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... service of Khurshid Pasha, governor of the Morea, about half of whom were Albanians. The command, if command it could be called, was in the hands of the kihaya or lieutenant of Khurshid, the pasha himself having, by order of the Porte, joined the... 