 Even where some Greek leaders, notably in the Mani Peninsula, decided to assist the Venetians, they made this conditional on the Venetian providing arms and supplies; and in the event, the rapid Ottoman advance and the absence of an effective Venetian response persuaded them to remain neutral.The Ottoman army in 1714 was still organized in the "classical" manner of the previous centuries, with a core of elite "kapikulu" troops, notably the Janissaries that formed the core of any expeditionary army, augmented by provincial levies and timariot cavalry.Ottoman armies were distinguished by the presence of large numbers of cavalry, which formed about 40% of a field army, but its effectiveness against European regular infantry had diminished much in the previous decades, as shown in the Great Turkish War.