Compared with the British Army, the British Royal Navy was far less willing to recognize the times.
They did not give a clear time for surrender, but they put forward a great many demands.
First, the British Royal Navy demanded that its honor be preserved: there had to be a grand surrender ceremony, and British officers and soldiers had to be permitted to keep their flags and personal property.
Second, the Royal Navy also demanded the establishment of a buffer zone and that they be allowed to surrender in batches.
Furthermore, the British Royal Navy's weapons and equipment could be handed over to the Holy Alliance in batches. Both sides would need to inspect, register, and catalog them, then jointly supervise their sealing, rather than treating them as spoils of war.
These terms from the British Mediterranean Fleet directly angered the Holy Alliance's diplomats so much that they laughed.
"What kind of joke are you making! Do you know what the situation is now? Our Holy Alliance army has more than a million men. Do you still have any chance of winning?
Your country's army has already surrendered. Those generals have probably been put into carriages bound for Saint Petersburg by now.
If you refuse to surrender, there is only one road ahead of you: death!
Hand them over? How laughable! Has saltwater soaked your brains rotten? Once you're dead, that equipment will be ours all the same!
Surrender means surrender. Where did all this bullshit come from?
What next? Are you going to tell us not to attack between two and three every afternoon because that's your tea time?"
The Russian diplomat was actually Army General Makarov. This was one of Nicholas I's old habits: he had an extreme distrust of the civilian bureaucracy, so he always had generals