In 1825, the Sultan again called on Muhammad Ali to suppress a local uprising, this time a nationalist revolution by Greek Christians. He was promised rule over Crete, Cyprus, and the Morea (the modern Peloponnese) for his services.[1] His son, Ibrahim Pasha, won quick victories at the head of a conscript army and controlled nearly the entire Peloponnesian peninsula within 10 months of his arrival in February 1825.[2] The Greeks continued guerrilla operations however, and by September of 1827 public opinion in Russia, Britain, and France forced the great powers to intervene in favour of the Greeks.[2] The joint British-Russian-French fleet destroyed Mehmed Ali’s fleet that October at the Battle of Navarino, and Ibrahim’s forces were expelled from the Morea a year later following the arrival of a French expeditionary force and a settlement negotiated by the European powers.[3] Once Ibrahim and his forces returned from Greece, preparations to wrest control of Syria began in earnest.[3]