Leicester Fitzgerald Charles Stanhope (1784-1862) played a controversial role in the struggle for Greek independence. After a career in the Indian army, he offe
Excerpt from Visit to Greece: In 1823 and 1824 A variety of circumstances are mentioned as having contributed to occasion the Greek Revo lution. It has been sai
When in 1821, the Greeks rose in violent revolution against the rule of the Ottoman Turks, waves of sympathy spread across Western Europe and the United States.
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