Lord Byron’s Perilous Sailing to Messolonghi in the Greek War of Independence
Lord Byron in Albanian [Souliot] Dress, at the age of 25, after his graduation from the University of Cambridge (1809) and his tour of Ottoman Greece (1809-1811). Oil painting on canvas (1813) by Thomas Phillips (1770-1845), National Gallery of Greece. ______________________________________________ A remarkable episode in Byron’s…
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