In the fall of 1825, Mohammed Ali the Great, the more or less independent wali (governor) of Egypt sent a new fleet of 135 ships, which consisted of Algerian, Tunisian, Turkish and Egyptian ships to join the expeditionary force already in Greece under his son Ibrahim Pasha [REF].
Ibrahim Pasha now demanded the city surrender with the people being given the choice of being sold into slavery or converting to Islam, a demand the Greeks rejected [REF].