Allgemeine Zeitung 15th of October 1822 Captain Tasos (Revolutionary hero Tasos Karatasos), along with Captain Diamantis, is currently near Larissa with 7,000 men. For several months, these two commanders were stationed at Platamonas, from where they obstructed the descent of Khurshid Pasha into Central Greece and the Peloponnese. Khurshid Pasha was defeated by a force of 4,000 revolutionaries from Amfissa. Meanwhile, in Thessaloniki, Turkish refugees from Larissa are seizing the fine homes of the Greeks.