Battle of Petra

The Battle of Petra was the last battle between Greek revolutionaries and the Ottoman Empire in the Greek revolution.

Background

By the summer of 1829, the Peloponnese, Central Greece and parts of some islands were liberated by the Greek revolutionaries. A peace treaty between the warring parties was imminent, but it was obvious that the future Greek government would have with the conquered territories on a fairly limited territory.

In August, the Ottoman commander Aslan Bey and Osman Aga of Athens journeyed in order to fight the Russians, with which the Ottomans were since 1828 within the framework of the Russian-Turkish war in war in Thrace.

Battle Record

The Greek army under Demetrius Ypsilanti, now an organized army, awaited them at Petra, a small town at a narrow point in Boeotia between Thebes and Livadia. On September 12, 1829 came together to battle. To the Greeks to defeat the Ottomans in sword fighting and move to the disorderly retreat succeeded. The remaining parts of the Ottoman army, which now hovered in the danger of being encircled, also withdrew.

Follow

To move to Thrace, Osman Aga, signed on the following day a treaty with the Greeks. The Ottomans were all areas between Livadia and the river Sperchios from the Greeks. In return they were allowed to withdraw their troops safely out of Central Greece. This battle was important to the Greeks because they had fought victoriously for the first time as a regular army. Demetrius Ypsilanti finished with this victory, the revolution that had begun eight and a half years before under his brother Alexander.