The naval triumph removed the fleet but left roughly 40,000 Ottoman and Egyptian troops in fortified positions ashore. Codrington pressured Muhammad Ali to order an evacuation, while a French expedition landed to make Ibrahim Pasha comply and clear the remaining Peloponnesian garrisons. Most of those garrisons offered only token, honor-preserving resistance before surrendering. Greek forces then recovered central territory as a Russian army advanced deep into Ottoman lands. Navarino was therefore decisive because it enabled a sequence of military and diplomatic actions, not because the battle alone ended the war.
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Navarino was decisive without ending the war
Ottoman troops and forts remained, so French intervention, Egyptian evacuation, Greek campaigning, and Russian victory were still required.