Greek War of Independence: Part 1

     As is expected, the beginning of the war is covered in mystery, as revolutionaries are usually... secretive, the organization credited with inciting the war, the Filiki Eteria or Society of Friends was an early 19th century group of patriots that longed to see Greece free from Ottoman rule, their members consisted mostly of Phanariotes (members of prominent Greek families residing in Phanar), who were usually well educated and wealthy. Their leader was Alexander Ypsilantis. In 1820, after the offer of the organization's leadership has been refused by Kapodistrias, the then Russian foreign minister, the post was offered to Ypsilantis, who was then elected as the leader of the secret society. Following that, he processed and approved the general plan of the Greek war of independence, which was revised during May 1820 at Bucharest, with the participation of rebel captains from mainland Greece.
The main points of the plan were:

• to aid the simultaneous revolt of Serbs and Montenegrins.
• to provoke a revolt in Wallachia, by also enlisting rebels from the Serbian lands, battle-hardened from the first and second Serbian uprisings.
• to provoke civil unrest in Istanbul through the use of agents, and burn the Ottoman fleet at the city's port.
• to start the revolution in Greece in the Peloponnese, after Ypsilantis' arrival there.