The
Turkish fleet with strength of 60 sails and 12000 soldiers commanded by Mehmed
pasha left the Dardanelles. 9 February
was at Constantinople an 84-gun ship of the
line, 2 sloops and 2 extra ordinary gunboats launched in the presence of the
sultan and the court. It was almost certain that against the end of March
another fleet of 40 sails, commanded by the Captain Pasha, was to depart for
the Archipelago.
