Narrative of a Second Visit to Greece : Including Facts Connected with the Last Days of Lord Byron, Extracts from Correspondence, Official Documents, Etc.
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Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Cambridge Library Collection - European History
ISBN-10
1108075975
ISBN-13
9781108075978
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
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Cambridge University Press
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GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jul 17th, 2014
Print length
368 Pages
Weight
480 grams
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21.50 x 14.00 x 2.00 cms
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Edward Blaquiere (1779–1832) was influenced by the liberal philosophy of Jeremy Bentham, and in 1823 helped form the London Greek Committee to raise money for the Greek war of independence. In this 1825 book, he describes his own travels in Greece and the last days of Lord Byron.
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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