ABSTRACT
By the middle of the decade one thing seemed clear. The Greek Revolution was hardly surging ahead to victory. Ali Pasha and his forces had been exterminated in February 1822; Byron died in April 1824; and the Greeks were defeated at Missolonghi in April 1826. The dream of freeing all of Greece receded, although there remained a core of independent territory in the Peloponnesus and the southern Greek mainland. Eventually, after the assassination of the Greek head of state John Capodistrias in 1831, the Great Powers intervened to create a new, very small Greek kingdom, and the crown was given to Prince Otto of Bavaria. By then Napier was no longer in the country.
