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The Greek Revolution - Its Origin and Progress, Together with Some Remarks on the Religion, National Character, &c. in Greece (Paperback)
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The Greek Revolution - Its Origin and Progress, Together with Some Remarks on the Religion, National Character, &c. in Greece (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.) Blaquiere
published this book in 1824, emphasising his credentials as an
eyewitness of events. An account of his second visit in 1824 is
also reissued in this series, and the two works describe both
events in Greece and the internal quarrels among its philhellene
supporters."
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