Editing Scorched earth (section)

===Greek War of Independence===
In 1827, [[Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt]] led an Ottoman-Egyptian combined force in a campaign to crush Greek revolutionaries in the [[Peloponnese]]. In response to Greek guerrilla attacks on his forces in the [[Peloponnese]], Ibrahim launched a scorched earth campaign that threatened the population with starvation and deported many civilians into slavery in [[Egypt Eyalet|Egypt]].{{sfn|Bostock|2010|p=155}} The fires of burning villages and fields were clearly visible from Allied ships standing offshore. A British landing party reported that the population of Messinia was close to mass starvation.{{sfn|Blackmore|2014|p=306}} Ibrahim's scorched-earth policy caused much outrage in [[Europe]], which was one factor for the [[Great Powers]] ([[United Kingdom]], the [[Kingdom of France]] and the [[Russian Empire]]) decisively intervening against him in the [[Battle of Navarino]].