Tilsit turns battle damage into a strategic crisis

The morning after the battle, two damaged Ottoman ships of the line and a sloop fall behind and are forced ashore, where they are burned to prevent capture. The Treaty of Tilsit then frees Russia from immediate war with France without giving the Ottoman Empire a voice in the settlement. The war continues until the Treaty of Bucharest, far beyond the quick victory Ottoman leaders had hoped for. Ottoman losses are given as three ships of the line, three frigates, and two sloops. The greater damage may have been the collapse of faith in the Ottoman Navy, since a proper fleet apparently was not fielded again for two or three decades. Athos therefore becomes an institutional and strategic defeat as well as a limited Aegean action.