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

302 THE WAR OF GREEK INDEPENDENCE
and the Egyptian army began to embark.
of October Ibrahim himself left with the last
troops.
On the 3rd
of his
It had been stipulated that no prisoners were
to be removed against their will,
and French soldiers
were drawn up on the quay to see that this provision
was observed. Of the six hundred captives, however,
only eleven elected to remain in their devastated country.
For the rest the flesh-pots of Egypt seemed to
and in the end the scan-
hold out greater attractions;
dal of such a desertion was avoided by their all being
compelled to remain.
The ill-will of the French at being deprived of their
laurels found vent in a breach of the convention which
Codrington had arranged with Mehemet Ali, and
which the French affected not to recognise. By the
terms of the treaty for the evacuation of the country,
Ibrahim was to be allowed to leave garrison? in such
fortresses as had been in the occupation of the Sultan's
forces at the time of his landing; and, in accordance
with this provision, garrisons had been left in the
castles of Coron, Modon, and Navarino, and in the
fort of Rhium.
These the French summoned to surrender.
The Turks refused, but, in the case of the
first-named fortresses,
suffered the besiegers to plant
their ladders against the walls, and storm the defences
without opposition.
Only the fort of Rhium resisted,