Historical place archive
Browse historical events and people recorded at Peloponnese in Egypt. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
Leads an expeditionary force of 16,000 into the Peloponnese, and soon overran its western part; he failed, however, to take the eastern section, where the rebel Government was based (at Nafplion). Ibrahims forces move onto the Greek mainland, capturing the pivotal strongholds of the Acropolis of Athens and, in April 1826, despite a heroic Greek defence, Messolonghi, which controlled the entrance to the Gulf of Corinth
Leads an expeditionary force of 16,000 into the Peloponnese, and soon overran its western part; he failed, however, to take the eastern section, where the rebel Government was based (at Nafplion)
Ibrahim lands in the Peloponnese in February 1825 and had immediate success: by the end of 1825, most of the Peloponnese is under Egyptian control
The Governments of all three powers were under intense pressure from their public opinion to help the Greeks, especially after the invasion of the Peloponnese in 1825 by Ottoman vassal Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt and the atrocities committed by his forces
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