Since the beginning of 1821 Kolokotronis had come down to Mani, and with his enormous authority and personality, he had managed to kiss the warring toparchs, and to take Kalamata together.
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then there was no such thing as a regular army.
the guns were held,
the loyal minions of the various local stooges
and the soybeans from the families of the leaders...
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then Kolokotronis, who had a centralized plan, thought to strike and take Tripolitsa, which was then
the
Administrative,
military
and financial centre
of Mora Valesi (commander of the Moria)
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if Tripolitsa fell, then there would be no Turkish man anywhere in the Moria
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the others stalled but with his persuasion the Old Man managed to gather them and eventually spread a surveillance net, so to speak (something like a siege) around the walls of Tripolitsa
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but to keep them all united and happy
It says
the commander-in-chief Petrobey (while all decisions were made by him)
and
gives strategies
in Yatrakos that catches the guard on the left of Tripolitsa with 1,500 men
...to Anagnostaras, who is capturing the center with 1,000 men...
and between them and a little bit behind them,
Petrobey with 1,500 Maniates,
while
he held the whole left alone with 2,500 men
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however,
who would know anything about sieges in those days?;
But
Kolokotronis who was an excellent military mind and had served as a Major in the English army
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for a start, he set up a system of communication between the besiegers using the ancient system of the friars...
post,
he ordered them to find and cut the pipeline that supplied water to the city
and finally,
ordered a ditch one metre deep and 2 metres wide to be dug around the town (a trench) ....
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the confined Turks began to run short of food and so they decided to make do with half their cavalry,
a foray into the surrounding villages and grab as much food as they can
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the Turks coming out,
Today, August 10, 1821,
they laughed at the grease saying that the giaurians were building borders...
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on their way back from the pillage they dragged with them 700 Samaritan mules loaded with supplies...
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there the Old Man had given orders for his men to barricade themselves in the grana and shoot the Turks who were returning to enter the city.
then,
from Tripolitsa the other half of the cavalry comes out to help and pour in the grease to put the fortified men in the middle...
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suddenly within seconds the position of the Greeks became dire!
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and then the short, sharp and perfectly understandable order from Kolokotronis is heard.
«GREEKS, ASS TO ASS»
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the alpha and omega in war are the quick and clear instructions of the soldiers.
half of the Greeks in the grease turned on the spot to the other side and cut off the Turkish attack...
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Finally, the Turks, abandoning animals and loads, ran and entered Tripolitsa and did not come out again until the fall.
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since then the spontaneous order of Kolokotronis where each soldier guards (protects) the back of the other,
is taught in military commentaries as «Root Fire»
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PS. 44 days from today Tripolitsa will fall...
