Kolokotronis recounts that Nikitas (Nikitaras) had moved toward Argos, where he destroyed the mosques and minarets and sent lead to the Greek forces, as they were in great need of both lead and paper. To make cartridges, they used the books taken from the library of Dimitsana and from other monasteries, while the town itself supplied them with gunpowder. As Kolokotronis notes, “we had gunpowder; Dimitsana produced it,” and the responsibility for its manufacture had been undertaken by the Spiliotopoulos brothers. Because the production of gunpowder was essential, many men from Dimitsana were not taken into the camp but were left behind to work exclusively on this task. This account appears in the Memoirs of Theodoros Kolokotronis (Narration of the Events of the Greek Nation from 1770 to 1836, dictated by Theodoros Konstantinou Kolokotronis, printed by Ch. Nikolaïdou Philadelpheos, Athens, 1846, p. 71).