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

262 THE WAR OF GREEK INDEPENDENCE
not to Patras;
and Codrington now proceeded to fire
on the foremost Ottoman ships, which had not hoisted
their colours, and drove them back.
In the night the
gale increased to a hurricane, and both fleets were scattered.
"
Ibrahim, however, made no further attempt
to reach Patras, and returned to Navarino.
On his arrival he found the expected instructions
from the Porte awaiting him. These,
counselling him to yield to
so far from
the demands of the admirals,
ordered him to redouble his exertions for the
reduction of the Morea, and promised him the speedy
support of Kiutayeh. Nothing
could have better
pleased the Egyptian commander-in-chief in his present
temper; and, without delaying a day, he proceeded
to wreak the consuming wrath, which he was
powerless to exercise on the hated admirals, on the already
thrice devastated country. The British officers
watched from their ships the columns of flame and
smoke which were the signal to the Powers of the Ottoman
defiance.
As such, indeed, it was understood by Admiral
Codrington. On the 13th, the Russian admiral,
Count Heyden, and the French admiral, de Rigny,
arrived off Navarino; and the allied fleet was now
complete. The British squadron numbered eleven,
including three line-of-battle ships and four frigates,