That Greece might still be free : the Philhellenes in the War of Independence /

"When in 1821 the Greeks rose in violent revolution against the rule of the Ottoman Turks, waves of sympathy spread across Western Europe and the United States. More than a thousand volunteers set out to fight for the cause. William St Clair meticulously researched and highly readable account o...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	St. Clair, William
Corporate Author:	JSTOR (Organization)
Other Authors:	Beaton, Roderick
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge : Open Book Publishers, 2008.
Edition:	New rev. corrected ed.
Subjects:	War of Independence (Greece : 1821-1829) 1821-1829 Philhellenism. HISTORY > Europe > Greece. HISTORY > Social History. Military participation > Foreign. Greece > History > War of Independence, 1821-1829 > Participation, Foreign. Greece. Greece Greek History Lord Byron War of Independence Philhellenes War History Romanticism Electronic books. History.
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Table of Contents:

The Outbreak
The Return of the Ancient Hellenes
The Regiment
Two Kinds of War
The Cause of Greece, the Cause of Europe
The Road to Marseilles
Chios
The Battalion of Philhellenes
The Battle of Peta
The Triumph of the Captains
The Return Home
The German Legion
Knights and Crusaders
Secrets of State
Enter the British
Lord Byron joins the Cause
'To bring Freedom and Knowledge to Greece'
Arrivals at Missolonghi
The Byron Brigade
Essays in Regeneration
The New Apostles
The English Gold
The Coming of the Arabs
The Shade of Napoleon
'No freedom to fight for at home'
French Idealism and French Cynicism
Regulars Again
A New Fleet
Athens and Navarino
America to the Rescue
Later
Appendix I: Remarks on Numbers
Appendix II: The Principal Philhellenic Expeditions
Notes on the Select Bibliography
Select Bibliography
Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Material Since 1972.