THE WAR OF GREEK INDEPENDENCE 1821 TO 1833 BY W.ALISON PHILLIPS 1897

176 THE WAR OF GREEK INDEPENDENCE
outraged by them, or their co-religionists, four years
before; and their own evil conscience inspired them
with terrors which proved to be groundless. The presence
of Ibrahim's regular troops insured the terms of
the capitulation being observed; the soldiers of the
garrison were marched down to the quay, surrounded
by a strong escort of cavalry,
to Kalamata in neutral ships,
and thence transferred
escorted by a French
and an Austrian man-of-war.
When all was over, a Greek squadron under Miaoulis
at last appeared upon the scene; and, seeing
that he was too late to save Navarino, the Hydriot
admiral proceeded to Modon, where he succeeded in
destroying with fire-ships several of the Egyptian vessels
in the harbour, including the fine frigate Asia,
and also in burning a considerable quantity of stores;
but this success of the Greeks had no effect in delaying
Ibrahim's movements.
Hitherto the vanity and overweening self-confidence
of the Greeks at the centre of government
had been fed by false reports of victories, and
bombastic promises of the speedy expulsion of the
Egyptians from the Morea. The fall of so important
a fortress as Navarino, however, was a misfortune
which not even the most plausible
interpret as a success;
Levantine could
and the arrival of the news at