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Tripolitsa was filled with blood
1) Theodoros Kolokotronis – Memoirs
> “When the city fell, the sword did not rest for three days and three nights.
Women and children were not spared; Tripolitsa was filled with blood.”
(From the commander of the uprising himself. No denial, no excuse.)
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2) Thomas Gordon – History of the Greek Revolution
> “The victory was followed by an indiscriminate massacre.
Unarmed Muslims and Jews were systematically slain,
and no mercy was shown within the city.”
(A philhellene — yet brutally honest.)
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3) George Finlay – History of Greece
> “The Muslim population of the Morea was destroyed,
either by the sword or by forced flight.
This was not war, but extermination.”
(Cold historian’s language, heavy verdict.)
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4) William St. Clair – That Greece Might Still Be Free
> “The fall of Tripolitsa remains the darkest page of the Greek cause.
The triumph applauded in Europe was built upon the bodies of thousands of civilians.”
(A direct challenge to romantic Western narratives.)
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5) Justin McCarthy – Death and Exile
> “After 1821, Muslim society in the Morea effectively ceased to exist.
This was not spontaneous migration, but a result created by violence.”
(No drama — just facts and numbers.)
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