Battle of Navarino
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The Battle of Navarino was a naval battle fought on 20 October 1827, during the Greek War of Independence, in Navarino Bay, on the west coast of the Peloponnese peninsula, in the Ionian Sea. Allied fo
The Naval Battle of Navarino Ambroise Louis Garneray, 1827
Satellite picture of the Peloponnese. Navarino Bay is visible in the inset in the lower left.
Codrington's squadron prevents the Ottoman reinforcements from reaching Patras on 4 October.
Ibrahim Pasha, the commander of the Egyptian expedition to the Peloponnese. The atrocities committed by his forces against the Greek population made him one of the most reviled figures in Europe.
Edward Codrington
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Admiral Sir Edward Codrington, was a Royal Navy officer who served in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, War of 1812 and Greek War of Independence. He is best known for commanding a combine
Battle of Navarino
…enforce their policy. The naval battle happened more by accident than by design as a result of a manoeuvre by the Allied commander-in-chief, Admiral Edward Codrington, aimed at coercing the Ottoman commander to obey Allied instructions. The sinking of the Ottomans' Mediterranean fleet saved the fledgling Greek Republic…
Lithograph of the Admiral, circa 1897
Admiral Codrington, MP for Devonport, painted for the reformed House of Commons picture by Sir George Hayter in 1836
Sir Edward Codrington by Henry Perronet Briggs, 1843