In 1798 , Napoleon Bonaparte , at the time a general serving in the French Revolutionary Wars under the orders military.military_command the French Directory , sent two members of the Stephanopoulos family to Mani in order to convince the Maniots to attack the Ottomans from the Peloponnese while he attacked from Egypt .

The Hama massacre ( ) occurred in February 1982 , when the Syrian Arab Army and the Defense Companies , under the orders military.military_command the country 's president Hafez al-Assad , besieged the town of Hama for 27 days in order to quell an uprising by the Muslim Brotherhood against al-Assad 's government .