In 1797 during the planned campaign to Balkans, Napoleon sent to Mani, the Korsican Maniotes Nikolaos and Dimos Stephanopoulos with an epistle to Tzanetos Grigorakis, beis of Mani (Mani was autonomous during the Turcocracy), saying this:

The General Commander of the army in Italy

To the leader of the free people of Mani

“Citizen, I’ve received your epistle in which you declared your will to be useful to the French Republic by accepting in your ports her ships. I believe that you will keep your promise as suits on the Spartans’ descedants. French Republic won’t be ungrateful to your nation, as about me I will accept propitiously everyone who wants among you to come to me on behalf you, and I want it as anything else, so there will be an agreement between two nations who love equally the freedom”

Health and fraternity
Bonaparte