his foresight was rewarded by the invitation of the sultan to help him in the task of subduing the greek insurgents, offering as reward the pashaliks of the morea and of syria. muhammad ali had already, in 1821, been appointed by him governor of crete, which he had occupied with a small egyptian force. in the autumn of 1824, a fleet of 60 egyptian warships carrying a large force of 17,000 disciplined troops concentrated in suda bay, and, in the following march, with ibrahin as commander-in-chief landed in the morea.