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Wednesday 10 July 2019

The Greek and Turkish navies in the Mediterranean according to the Nederlandsche Staatscourant dated 4 September 1824

Bucharest, 10 August. The tidings from the Archipelago were confirmed in a just arrived letter from Ruttschuk. The 7th arrived there a tartar from Enos with the tiding that the Captain Pasha was indeed defeated and that at Enos many small ships sought refugee.

Odessa, 19 August, According to preliminary tidings from Constantinople of 30 July tried the Captain Pasha to leave Mitylene but was pursued by Greek fire ships and lost some of his largest ships forcing him to seek refugee in the Gulf of Smyrna. Another division of his fleet was heavily beat between Samos and Ipsara. Obviously he made a mistake by parting his fleets in two divisions. The Greek admiral Kanaris sworn before leaving Hydra to take revenge for Ipsara.