pe, and when implored to march, was content to answer coldly,
'When they pay me I will go.' The troops of Kolokotrones the younger,
and of Sessinis, deserted in the direction of Livonia. The Turks, taking
advantage of the disorganized condition of the Greeks, attacked the
Phalerum on the night of the 6th, but were repulsed."

Lord Cochrane's account of the battle sent to the Government on the 7th
of May, though more general, supplies some other details. "The plan
concocted previous to the death of General Karaiskakes," he said, "was
carried into effect on the 6th, by his excellency General Church, with
this difference in the execution of the service, that his excellency and
myself were anxious that a rapid march should be made from the place of
debarkation direct to Athens, by a body of four thousand men, in order
to return with the women and children and the wounded, whereas the
officers of the army insisted upon entrenchments being made in the line
of their progress--an operation which required so much time as to
preclude the possibility of effecting the object surprised and
unopposed. The redoubts were in progress of construction, and the work
continued with unremitting labour until about nine o'clock in the
morning, when the enemy's cavalry, having collected from all quarters,
broke in upon the unfinished redoubts and vigorously attacked those who
had advanced the furthest, and who, from the number of subdivisions
left, according to the custom of the country, in these redoubts during
their progress, had become so weakened as to be incapable of making
effectual resistance. The loss on our side has been very considerable. I
had to lament this day that the Greeks still continue their aversion to
that regularity of movement and honesty of action which constitute the
strength of armies, and I grieve to see great bravery rendered useless
to their country and dangerous to themselves, and wasted in desultory
and unsupported personal efforts. The use of the bayonet and very slight
military instruction would have saved most of those who fell on this
occasion, and would have rendered unnecessary those redoubts which delay
the progress of your arms, and destroy more men in insignificant
enterprises which tend to no result, than would be required for the
deliverance of your country. The affairs of Greece require energy, and
that remedy be at once applied to whatever impedes the progress of
affairs."

Lord Cochrane testified to