Inside the fortified town, there were Alexandros Mavrokordatos, Markos Botsaris, Athanasios Razi-Kotsikas and around six hundred men with fourteen guns.

[3] After a month of bombardment and sorties, the main Ottoman assault was set for the night of 24 December, just before Christmas, expecting that the Greeks would be caught by surprise.

[4][5] The Ottoman army, while retreating, passed through the flooded Achelous River, where more than five hundred men drowned.

[6] Missolonghi remained under Greek control, and resisted another Ottoman attempt at its capture a year later.

Its resistance achieved wider fame when Lord Byron arrived there, dying in the town of fever in April 1824.