An Historical Sketch of the Greek RevolutionWhite, Gallaher & White, 1828 - 452 páginas |
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... boat , is never found day or night without a lamp trim- med and burning before the picture of the Virgin . The Scriptures are professedly the rule of faith to the Greek Church , but explained and modified by the decrees of the first ...
... boat , is never found day or night without a lamp trim- med and burning before the picture of the Virgin . The Scriptures are professedly the rule of faith to the Greek Church , but explained and modified by the decrees of the first ...
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... boat expedition . CHAP . III . Attempts of Gen. Church and Lord Cochrane to relieve Athens - Monastery taken - Massacre of Turkish Prisoners - Death of Karraiskakis - Greeks de- feated on the 6th of May - Bad results of that Defeat ...
... boat expedition . CHAP . III . Attempts of Gen. Church and Lord Cochrane to relieve Athens - Monastery taken - Massacre of Turkish Prisoners - Death of Karraiskakis - Greeks de- feated on the 6th of May - Bad results of that Defeat ...
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... boat could Government command , without the permission of its private owners . At the commencement of the in- surrection , Hydra , Spetzia , and Ipsara , possessed from 400 to 600 beautifully modelled , light rigged , swift sailing mer ...
... boat could Government command , without the permission of its private owners . At the commencement of the in- surrection , Hydra , Spetzia , and Ipsara , possessed from 400 to 600 beautifully modelled , light rigged , swift sailing mer ...
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... boat , which is kept ready , dragging astern ; the captain fires the train , and follows them , and leaving the brulot , of which every spar , rope , and sail , is in an instant in one broad blaze , to grasp in its fiery embrace the ene ...
... boat , which is kept ready , dragging astern ; the captain fires the train , and follows them , and leaving the brulot , of which every spar , rope , and sail , is in an instant in one broad blaze , to grasp in its fiery embrace the ene ...
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... boats were sent off from the fleet ; the sailors united with the inhabitants , and after a severe fight , the Turks were driven out of the town . But the inhabitants knew it was only a momentary respite ; in the morning the Turks would ...
... boats were sent off from the fleet ; the sailors united with the inhabitants , and after a severe fight , the Turks were driven out of the town . But the inhabitants knew it was only a momentary respite ; in the morning the Turks would ...
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Acropolis Admiral Albanians Argos arms army arrived Athens attack attempt batteries began blockade boats body Boeotia Botzaris brave brigs brulots Candia cannon Capitan Pashaw Captain cavalry Chiefs citadel Cochrane Colocotroni command commenced Constantinople Corinth corvette defend Deputies enemy European exertions expedition Favier fire fire-ships force fortress frigate garrison Government Greece Greek fleet gulf gulf of Corinth hope hundred Hydra Hydriote Ibrahim Pashaw immediately inhabitants insurrection Ionian Islands Ipselanti island Karraiskakis Kiutahi land Lord Byron Marco Botzaris Mavrocordato Mavromichalis Mehemet Mehemet Ali ment Miaulis military Missilonghi Modon Morea mountains Napoli nation Navarino Niketas obliged Oropos party Pashaw passed Patrass peasantry Peloponessus Philhellenes plain port position possession prepared province provisions resistance retired revolt sailed sailors Scio sent ship shot siege situation soldiers soon Suliotes Sultan Thessaly thing thousand tion town Tripolitza troops Turkish fleet Turks vessels walls whole καὶ τὴν τὸ