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The Treaty contained a secret supplementary article, which proved
to be decisive: in case that the Sublime Porte would not accept the terms within one month, the contracted powers would immediately take the appropriat measures for the imposition of armistice.
And this is exactly what happened:
after the rejection of the Treaty by
the Sultan, the three-nation allied fleet, under the admirals de Rigny, Codrington and Heiden, confronted on 20 October 1827 the Turkish-Egyptian forces in the bay
of Navarino. There had preceded a naval episode in early September between British and Turkish-Egyptian ships on the coast
of Parnassis, where the steamer
«Karteria» with Hastings as its commander, destroyed six small Turkish vessels and
one Algerian. After successive warnings
by admiral Codrington, who had
the general command, to Ibrahim to accept the armistice and put an end to hostilities, on the 20th of October the allied fleet began to resume battle positions in
the bay of Navarino.
The combat brought overwhelming
losses upon the Turkish-Egyptian
fleet after four hours of heavy cannonade. As a consequence of the Naval Battle
of Navarino, a Protocol is signed,
in London, on 10/22 March 1829,
that recognises the autonomy
of Greece, demarcating the Ambacian-Pagasitikos Bay line as
its northern border. There followed
the Russian-Turkish Treaty of Adrianople (2/14 September 1829), in article 10
of which the Sublime Porte is forced to accept, on one hand, the Treaty of London of the 24th June/6th July 1827 and,
on the other hand, the Protocol of London of the 10th/22nd March 1829.
Seven years after the beginning
of the Greek Revolution, the sacrifices
of the Greeks had unexpectedly paid off
in the arena of international diplomacy, indeed in a period in which the Revolution was at a particularly crucial turning point. The road to independence
had by then definitively opened.
IΙ.5
Diplomatic interventions
The Treaty of Adrianople was «the international contract of the political substance and independence of the Greek state». William Ewart Gladstone
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