Dramali passed through the narrow defile known as the Dervenaki ( Tretos ) and on 24 July reached Argos , whence the Greek government had fled . The flight of the Greek government from Argos without a shot being fired inflicted a blow to its prestige that it never recovered from as many Greeks damned their government as one of cowards . Earlier that year , the Ottomans had committed the Chios Massacre , and refugees from Chios had brought vivid tales of the murder , rape and enslavement committed on Chios to the mainland ; the news of Dramali Pasha ’s advance created panic all over the Morea . The Maniots , who were supposed to stop the Ottomans instead robbed the refugees , leading Colonel Thomas Gordon to caustically comment that the Maniots “ would have reputed it a disgrace to have gone back to their mountains as poor as they left them ” . Dramali Pasha left no guards behind him in the Dervenaki and he posted no forces where other defiles exposed his flanks . He sent cavalry forward to join the Ottoman garrison at Nafplion , which at that time was on the point of capitulation . As it was , Dramali was able to seize the Greek hostages which the garrison was holding there as a pledge for the safety of Muslim hostages held by the Greeks
Chios Massacre
Chios massacre
Expedition of Dramali