In may 1854 Athens and Piraeus were occupied from the Anglofrench army (Possession), so that the Greek government was forced to recant the revolutionary movements that had been expressed in the Continent, in the Thessaly and in Macedonia. The troops brought along the cholera, with result in the five months that he kept the possession, for 3.000 individuals, or the 1/10 of population of Athens to die. The same year the Amaleio orphanage for the care of orphans that their parents fell victims of cholera was founded. The troops abandoned Athens in February 1857.