 In October 1827, the first governor of independent Greece Ioannis Kapodistrias went to Paris to ask the French government for advisers and French army officers to organise the army of the new Greek state.On the recommendation of the French Ministry of War, the Captain of the General Staff of the French army, Stamatis Voulgaris, and three other officers (the Captains of the artillery Jean-Henri-Pierre-Augustin Pauzié, of the topographic service Pierre Peytier, and of the engineers Auguste-Théodore Garnot) were sent to Greece in 1828 to train young Greek military engineers.They were all four attached to the General Staff of General Maison, commander-in-chief of the Morea military expedition, whose mission was to liberate the Peloponnese from the Turkish-Egyptian occupation troops of Ibrahim Pasha.