Mahmud Dramali Pasha: Difference between revisions

In the summer of 1821, as the [[Greek War of Independence]] began, he crushed the first rebellions by Greeks in the city of Drama.<ref>Finlay, pp. 242-249</ref> AfterIn theJune disgrace1822 andwe suicidewas of Hursid, took over asappointed ''[[Mora valesi]]'', with the task of destroying the Greek revolt in its heart, the [[Morea]]. He assembled a well-equipped army of well over 20,000 men, a huge force by Balkan standards, and the largest Ottoman army to enter Greece since the [[Turkish–Venetian War (1714–1718)|Ottoman invasion of the Morea]] in 1715. These comprised among others ca. 8,000 cavalry, predominantly from Macedonia and Thrace, and several thousand veterans of the campaign against Ali Pasha.<ref>Finlay, p. 350</ref>