and the assistant district attorney convinced the officers of the loyal troops not to try to suppress the rebels immediately. Then the rebels tried to surround the loyal units. Fortunately, the occasional firing only resulted in three dead and seven wounded. The next day French troops forced the loyal units to surrender. It was a tragic irony that the French bayonets that had created the conditions for a civil war with the occupation of Greek territories at this moment prevented one. In the following days the coup was established in other Greek Macedonian cities, Crete and other islands, always with the help of Cretan Gendarmerie officers like Captain Vouros in Veria. References Greece in the Balkan Wars, 1912-1913, Athens, 1970 (in Greek language) Abridged History of the Balkan Wars (in Greek language) Greece and the War in the Balkans (in Greek language) The History of National Division (in Greek language) Constabulary in Greece and Crete, Athens, 1912 (in Greek language) History of the Greek Nation, Volumes 11 and 15 The Story of the Salonica Army, London, 1918 The Liberation of Thessalonici (in Greek language) History of the Cretan Constabulary, Athens, 1963 (in Greek language) History of the National Amynis Coup, (in Greek language) Political and Military History of the Balkan Wars in Macedonia, 1915 Cretan Affairs (in Greek language) Defunct gendarmeries Defunct law enforcement agencies of Greece Cretan State Organizations established in 1899 Hellenic Gendarmerie Establishments in the Cretan State