Two thousand Greek fighters defeated an Ottoman-Albanian force six times their size at Ambliani in Phocis on July 14, 18...

Two thousand Greek fighters defeated an Ottoman-Albanian force six times their size at Ambliani in Phocis on July 14, 1824, one of the most overlooked victories of the Greek War of Independence. The battle took place just months after the fall of Missolonghi's first siege, when Ottoman commander Mustai Pasha marched a force of roughly 12,000 Turco-Albanian troops south through central Greece. The Greeks, under local commanders who knew the mountain terrain of Phocis, positioned their men in the passes and ravines around Ambliani and waited. The result was a decisive rout. The Ottoman column was broken in the narrow passes, suffering catastrophic losses it could not absorb at that scale. The Greeks held the ground and turned back an advance that, had it succeeded, could have threatened the revolution's heartland in central Greece at one of its most vulnerable moments. The victory at Ambliani never made it into the standard telling of the War of Independence the way Missolonghi or Dervenakia did. No monument stands at the site today that most Greeks would recognize by name. Yet on July 14, 1824, a small Greek force stopped an army the size of a city. The Greek Revolution of 1821 was not a single dramatic uprising but hundreds of engagements fought across mountains, passes, and coastal towns by men who were outgunned and vastly outnumbered almost every time. Ambliani was one of those battles, and it held. #GreekRevolution #GreekHistory #1821