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Narrative of a Second Visit to Greece - Including Facts Connected with the Last Days of Lord Byron, Extracts from Correspondence, Official Documents, Etc. (Paperback)
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Narrative of a Second Visit to Greece - Including Facts Connected with the Last Days of Lord Byron, Extracts from Correspondence, Official Documents, Etc. (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - European History
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Edward Blaquiere (1779 1832), an Irishman of Huguenot descent,
joined the Royal Navy in 1794 and served, chiefly in the
Mediterranean, throughout the Napoleonic wars. In 1820, influenced
by Jeremy Bentham, he went on his behalf to Spain to observe the
revolution there. On the fall of the liberal regime in Spain in
1823, Blaquiere and his friend John Bowring formed the London Greek
Committee to raise money for the Greek war of independence and to
lobby the British government for support. (It was under the
auspices of the Committee, and recruited by Blaquiere, that Lord
Byron made his famous, and fatal, journey to Greece.) After his
second visit to Greece, in 1825 Blaquiere published this account of
his own travels and of the last days of Lord Byron. His 1824 book
on the progress of the Greek revolution is also reissued in this
series."
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