Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, "Capefigue" to "Carneades"

part in the War of Independence. The result was an insurrection in the

Maina (Easter, 1830), and the imprisonment of those of the Mavromichales, including Petrobey, who happened to be in the power of the government. At the news of their chieftain's imprisonment the Mainots, who had for a while been pacified, once more flew to arms and threatened to march on Nauplia; but negotia...