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Alexander Ypsilantis and his staff decided to drastically change the original plan of the Greek uprising that was set for the Peloponnese, instead they would declare their revolution in the Danubian Principalities (Wallachia), since in their view, that would give them a series of advantages, aiming for a unification with Greek rebels in the South of Greece, Moreas and Roumeli.
On the 22nd of February 1821, Ypsilantis crossed to Moldova and he revealed his Revolutionary flag. The News spread across Europe fast and enthusiastic young Greeks started volunteering, forming the Sacred Band. As Greeks where rushing to Wallachia, delegates from the Holy Alliance, met in Laibach, putting pressure on Tsar Alexander I to denounce the revolution and lift the ban on the Treaty of Bucharest allowing the Ottomans to enter the territories of the Danube Hegemony.
By the end of April, the Ottomans invaded with 30,000 men from the South in various points. Despite some successes from the Greeks, the lack of supplies and communications between them, created a climate of uncertainty. In the highlight of this, the indiscipline in Alexander Ypsilantis orders for untimely involvement in Dragasani, led to the sacrifice of the Sacred Band, that passed to Greek history as a moment of altruistic heroism, in the duty for their homeland.
The decisive defeat at Dragasani caused the dispersal of most of the forces, but it served as a strategic distraction for the Ottomans and showed the faith and determination of individual chiefs who, with their bravery, showed the way that others would follow, on the way to liberation.
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00:15 The reasoning behind the Danube Uprising
02:54 Alexander Ypsilantis begins his campaign
05:39 The battle of Galati - Thanasis Karpenisiotis
07:05 John Kolokotronis
07:46 Dragasani battle - The fall of the Sacred Band
15:22 The Battle at river Prut - Thanasis Karpenisiotis
15:35 The battle at Seku Monastery - Georgakis Olimpios & Ioannis Farmakis
16:12 Epilogue