The Cretan Insurrection of 1866-7-8Stillman, William James
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The Cretan Insurrection of 1866-7-8
Stillman, William James
Crete (Greece) -- History -- Insurrection, 1866-1868
Hussein Avni replaces Mustapha, 118;
locum tenens of Omar Pasha, ravages plains of Kissamos, 120;
block-house plan, 148
_Ida_, Mt., 83, 99
Ignatieff, Gen., Russian minister, 96, 99;
prevents Mr. Stillman's recall, 120
Insurrection of 1866, preparation, 42-52;
first bloodshed, 52;
overtures from Schahin Pasha, 54;
first Mussulman blood, 56;
collision at Selinos, 63, 64;
general outbreak of hostilities, 65;
Vrysis taken, 66;
engagement at Kakopetra, 70;
at Malaxa, 72;
Lakus abandoned, Zurba held, 73;
Theriso lost, 73;
stand at Stylos, 78;
Campos abandoned, 78;
Vafé lost; retreat to Askyfó; loss of confidence in Greek
volunteers, 82;
revived by Coroneos, 83;
Arkadi lost, 84-87;
Kissamos besieged, Omalos defended, 89;
shut up in Sphakian Mountains, collapse imminent, 94;
revival in Eastern Sphakia, 99;
Turks shut up in Retimo, 100;
affair at Krapi, 103;
defeat of Ali Riza Pasha, 105;
of Reschid Effendi, 106;
aid from the Greek Government, 115;
defeat of Ali Riza Pasha at Topolia, 120;
of Mehmet Pasha at
Krapi, and Omar Pasha at Kallikrati, 123;
reinforcements in the east, 125;
Omar shut up at Margaritas, 126;
Reschid beaten at Lasithe, 129;
Omar attacked at Kallikrati, 131;
at Aradena, 133;
checked at Agios Roumeli, 133;
retreat to Canéa, 135;
Reschid killed, 135;
armistice, 142;
pusillanimous surrender of volunteers, 151;
collapse, 152
Ismael Gibraltar, 31;
killed, 78
Ismael Pasha, appointed governor, outwits the Assembly of 1864, 36;
hated for his extortions and cruelty, 37;
quarrels with Consul Stillman, 38;
shirks the apology ordered by the Porte, 39;
makes a present of a paste intaglio, 40;
orders the Assembly at Boutzounaria to disperse, 43;
calls a conference of the consular corps, 44;
threatens to disperse the Assembly by force, 45;
fails to get the support of the consular corps, 46;
calls in the Mussulmans to the walled cities, 50;
attacked with fever, 55;
arms his co-religionaries, 57;
superseded by Mustapha Kiritli, 58;
quarrel with Schahin Pasha, 62;
withdraws Turkish supports from him, demands a battalion of
Egyptians, 63;
unnerved at Cretan successes, 66;
packed off to Constantinople, 67
Italian words in Cretan speech, 18
Janissary sway in Crete, 28
Joannides, a Greek physician, decides the Assembly not to disperse, 48
_Kakopetra_, ravine of, 70
Kaìergis, a Greek chief, 31
_Kallikrati_, pass, 123, 130
_Kalyves_, 78
_Kares_, 132
_Kephalá_, cave-stifling, 79
_Keramia_, movement against, 72, 73
_Khalepa_, 57
_Kissamos_, captured by Kalergis, 32;
besieged by volunteers, 89;
plain districts ravaged, 120
Korakas a Cretan chieftain, 99
_Krapi_, 78, 88, 99;
passage by the Turks, 103;
attack of Mehmet Pasha, 123
_Krustogherako_, pass, 90
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