the excellent soldiership of the Turkish
horsemen. With sabres and short muskets, they dashed in and out of the
crowd of retreating Greeks, who, having no bayonets and no weapons
adapted for close fighting, were utterly defenceless. He himself, having
landed with Dr. Gosse to watch the operations from the shore, was so
hard pressed by these formidable antagonists that he was only rescued by
his own bravery and the daring of Dr. Gosse, who retained possession of
the boat which was waiting for him on the shore until his chief had time
to force his way back to it through the crowd of fighting Turks and
Greeks and through the waves beating up to his neck. It was only when he
was again on board the _Hellas_, and able to direct the firing of the
guns, that the Turks were driven back, and the remnant of the Greek
force was allowed to collect and prepare for the return to Phalerum.

The fall of the Acropolis soon followed this terrible defeat. By it the
Greeks were utterly disorganized. Lord Cochrane, finding it impossible
to persuade them to another attempt, returned to Poros with the fleet on
the 10th of May. Sir Richard Church remained at Munychia, his army being
every hour reduced by desertions, till the 27th, when he and the two
thousand starving men who were left to him abandoned their position.
Fabvier and the garrison, through the intervention of the French Captain
Le Blanc and Admiral De Rigny, capitulated on the 5th of June. It was
then found that the Acropolis still contained stores of food and
ammunition sufficient for four months' use, and that their reports of
destitution had been deliberate falsehoods, intended only to force their
friends outside to come speedily to their relief.

Those falsehoods had been particularly mischievous. By them, as has been
shown, Lord Cochrane was induced to listen to the entreaties of
Karaiskakes and the Government, and take his ships to Phalerum, instead
of carrying out his plan of stopping the Turkish supplies in the
Negropont and at Oropos. Had that plan been adhered to, it seems as if a
very different issue might easily have been brought about.

The work on which he had been engaged having terminated so
unfortunately, Lord Cochrane was much blamed for it by critics who had
private reasons for being jealous. We have shown, however, that he only
entered upon that work at the request of men whose power and influence
he could not gainsay; that, having undertaken it, he set himself