Although the Revolution of 1821 had broken out in the Morea, hesitancy prevailed in the Eastern Continent. This was mainly due to the local chieftain Mitsos Kontogiannis who, despite the pressures from Diakos, Diovouniotis and Panourgias, considered the rebellion of the Greeks against the Turkish dynasty untimely.
The three pro-Revolution chieftains gathered in the village of Kompotades and decided to insult Ypati, who was called Patratziki at the time. Having no other choice, Kontogiannis also agreed. Indeed, the Greeks attacked Ypati on April 18 and soon occupied it, excluding the Turks there in their homes. The Turks finally capitulated but at the same time a strong Turkish force of 8,000 men under Kiose Mehmet and Omer Bryonis arrived at the neighboring Lianokladi. Unable to oppose this force, the Greeks left.
"In these months, April and Magi, a plan was made to go and conquer Patratziki and to mobilize all the neighboring places and in agreement to strike together. They gathered the necessary things in Mavrolithari, in the village, and we said that we should all come together and weigh together. In the morning we yoked outside Patras (Ypati was called Nea Patrai in Byzantine times) all of us, as three-thousands, were divided into two parts, we advanced to the edge of the country, the war took hold. The power of the Turks is great, and without any good to do, we were ruined.
"Poor Turks were killed and so were we, we were killed and wounded... I will also tell you a very brave incident:A fearless man from Kolovates (he is from the village of Salonos), his name is Mitro Katharion (he is truly pure and dishonorable ), after we settled in the country and retreated to the hill, all of our people and we beat a tambourine and fought. This unfortunate man was in the country in a house. After we left, he was locked up alone.
"His companions left and he was left alone. The Turks threw themselves at him, he takes a Turkicon jatagani and kills four. and where they fought him they give him a knife in the belly. and he kills Turkon and with the knife in his belly he came to where we were, at the drum. And we didn't mind the knife. with this on his stomach we took him to where our men were and the doctor was. and he drew the knife and with the heads of the ants he pierced the belly. And the poor man took a year to a doctor. He was getting old and struggling, and dung was coming out of the belly where the wound was. And he lives now and has no bread to eat.
"We stood there until the evening and we fought, we cut off the Turks from coming and going to the castle. Some time passed, Roukis and Roumanis left with an old man and were saved. Then we also went away, where the others were we rested. Then, to the right of the castle is a small mountain and some two hundred Turks came out and captured it. We started to fight them head-on. Gouras took his comrades and went secretly and took their backs and he carried them from the backs and we from the front. And we finished them all, we sent them to the other life and with the momentum of those, where we killed them, we also took the castle with an old man and killed the campos there too, most of them fled from the other place", says Ioannis Makrygiannis about the incident.