Debate about Navarino's significance

[Tsontos]

In the texts Ive read about Greece's war of independence Ive seen Navarino emphasised to a large extent and to a lesser extent in others. In other words, some beleive that the Russians, French and British' intervention at Navarino in October 1927 was the most decisive factor in Greece gaining independence.

Maybe I'm biased by my pride but I do not accept this opinion. Other texts agree that its role was overplayed. In a nutshell this is why I dont agree. In Kolokotronis and the army/irregulars, you have an army which had since starting the war in 1821, managed to secure all the Peloponnese and other parts of the Greek archipelago (Sterea-Ellada etc), so for 6 whole years the Greeks had destroyed the myth about the invincible Turk and replaced that view with an insight into just how erroded Turkish effectiveness had become. The first in the Balkans to fight for independence rather than just autonomy (Serbia) and had defeated the Turks with comprehensive victories at land and sea. 6 years after the Greeks had turned the Peloponnese into a fortress of their own the Turks were forced to send for a tributary ally state of Egypt under a man who was later carve out a state of his own, Ibrahim Pasha, to try and defeat the Greeks first at sea and then at land. The Greeks are forced to defend the Peloponnese again as their stronghold.

So I ask you, considering a decade of vicious and attrition, not to mention what happened after Navarino, would the Peloponnese have given out? Which was the greater factor? 6 years of warefare or the destruction of the Turkish Egyption fleet? In my opinion Navarino is important miliarily but even more so as a way for the Great Powers to justify recognising the Greek state. Afterall, before Navarino the Great powers were all hostile to lukewarm about Greek independence fearing one of the other great powers might become its patron and so were more interested in the status quo. Once they could come to a joint action at Navarino, the Greek rebels after 6 years of war, could finally be recognised universally without one of the powers feeling the other powers were exploiting the situation.

Thoughts? sorry I didnt use any historgraphy but I dont have time right now, and it was just coming into my head after reading the other day