Many Turkish families had been compelled by…

Many Turkish families had been compelled by hunger to escape and throw themselves at the mercy of Greeks of the neighborhood before the capitulation of Navarino to the Greeks.

They had been massacred, however.

The Turks are at the last extremity of starvation when they offer to surrender.

The Greeks propose a convention whereby surrendering Turks will be granted secure passage to Egypt.

The Turks in the city, when the capitulation is concluded, give up all the public property in the fortress, and all their money, plate, and jewels.

The Greeks, however, have neither the intention nor even the means of providing this promised secure passage.

One of the Greek negotiators, Poniropoulos, will boast some years later to General Gordon that he had destroyed the copy of capitulation given to Turks so that no proof would remain of any such transaction having been concluded.

The Greeks rush in when the gates open on August 19, 1821, and kill the entire population, numbering around three thousand, with the exception of one hundred and sixty who manage to escape.