Narrative of a Second Visit to Greece: Including Facts Connected with the Last Days of Lord Byron, Extracts from Correspondence, Official Documents, E

by Edward Blaquiere

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108075975
• ISBN13: 9781108075978
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"