"Капитан Георгий Ипсара with one hundred and forty men set fire to a Turkish ship of the Admiralty. Killed nearly all the principal officers and the captain himself - Pasha. The Greeks were still alive and unharmed. One vessel, on which of Candia in Constantinople drove head brave Ballesta, a French officer, stuck to Chios and exposing his terrible trophy. Ship was set on fire, and the head of the brave Ballesta found a decent grave. "
from the description of the plot to his film Eugène Delacroix, written by Salon 1824.
