Let's consider the three Great Powers on one side of the battle: Russia, France and UK. Quite a peculiar bunch in 1827. Let's start with the Russians. What were they doing here? The Russian Empire had this long-running expansion, and they noticed that the Ottoman Empire was decaying. They wanted a geopolitical extension of their presence in the Black Sea (they established to conquerthe Krim from Turkey in the Russian-Turkish war of 1768-1774) towards the Mediterranean Sea. This was a step in that direction. The other European powers saw that Russian ambition coming. Another link with Greece was the fellow-Orthodox Christian religion. And that alwyas helps.Fearing unilateral Russian action in support of the Greeks, Britain and France bound Russia by treaty to a joint intervention which aimed to secure Greek autonomy whilst preserving Ottoman territorial integrity as a check on Russia. And so it happend.
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