But the result was not as Ali had hoped: the Parganiotes resumed their former negotiations with the English, preferring to place their freedom in the hands of a Christian nation rather than to fall under the rule of a Mohammedan satrap....

The English immediately sent a messenger to Colonel Nicole, offering honourable conditions of capitulation.

The colonel returned a decided refusal, and threatened to blow up the place if the inhabitants, whose intentions he guessed, made the slightest hostile movement.
However, a few days later, the citadel was taken at night, owing to the treachery of a woman who admitted an English detachment; and the next day, to the general astonishment, the British standard floated over the Acropolis of Parga.
All Greece was then profoundly stirred by a faint gleam of the dawn of liberty, and shaken by a suppressed agitation.

The Bourbons again reigned in France, and the Greeks built a thousand hopes on an event which changed the basis of the whole European policy.

Above all, they reckoned on powerful assistance from Russia.