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Upon this the Ottoman fleet fled back as usual to the Dardanelles; yet the only consequence was the complete devastation, in revenge, of helpless Khios. The long-shielded prosperity of the island was remorselessly destroyed, the people were either enslaved or massacred, and the victorious fleet had to stand by as passively this time as at the destruction of Kydhonies the season before.
After the withdrawal of the Turkish squadron, the Greek fleet had to look on at the systematic destruction of Kydhonies, a flourishing Greek industrial town on the mainland opposite Mitylini which had been founded under the sultan's auspices only forty years before.
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