The Greek rebel forces are being besieged …

Years: 1827 - 1827
April
The Greek rebel forces are being besieged inside the Acropolis of Athens by Ottoman forces under the command of Mehmed Reshid Pasha.

Greek forces outside the city are desperately trying to break the siege.

The Scottish Admiral Lord Cochrane and Irish General Richard Church are nominally commanding the Greeks.

Three thousand men are ordered on April 24o advance across the plain.

Their plan is to send seven thousand more men, who are at Piraeus, to attack the Turks from the flanks.

As the Greeks advance from Phaleron, Reshid sends some cavalry to attack the Greeks.

He expects the main assault to come from Piraeus.

The troops from Piraeus do not arrive and the rest of the Greeks are attacked by the Turkish cavalry.

The Greeks lose either fifteen hundred or two thousand men, which is a devastating setback.

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