The present penultimate volume of my entire work deals with the period from the landing of Ibrahim in the Peloponnese, beginning of February 1825, to the Battle of Navarino, 8/20 October 1827, or - if we are more flexible - to the arrival of Kapodistrias in Greece, beginning of January 1828. This period is the most critical, the most dramatic, and the most complex of the Great Struggle for Independence. It constitutes a comprehensive chronicle, during which the struggle of the Greeks for their independence is renewed with greater acuteness both in the Peloponnese and in Central Greece, and their efforts to achieve it are intensified to the utmost limits of human endurance. In the Peloponnese, the superficial foresight of the political leadership towards the obvious new dangers that would come from Egypt, its criminal slowness in making and implementing the necessary decisions and measures, the delay in immediately confronting the Egyptians after their landing on the Messenian peninsula, the arrogance of the Greeks in the face of opponents trained in European military tactics, the incapable high command of the army led by the naval officer Kyriakos Skourtis, as well as the various inherent weaknesses in political and military organization, were the fatal sins and disadvantages that dragged the Greeks, especially the Peloponnesians, exhausted from the civil war, into their first failures in their conflicts, which brought them down from the clouds and crushed their morale. [...]