Preparations For The Greek Insurrection
In 1820, on the refusal of Count John Capodistria, the then Russian foreign minister, to accept the post of leader of the Filiki Eteria, 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.
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