Greece Revisited and Sketches in Lower Egypt in 1840

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Excerpt from Greece Revisited and Sketches in Lower Egypt in 1840: With Thirty-Six Hours of a Campaign in Greece in 1825 At the time when Greece, rich only in the hardihood and stern resolve of her sons, and in the good wishes of the philanthropist, stood forth single-handed to work out her own destinies, and to wrest her freedom from the hands of the Moslem, the author was a sojourner in that land. His good fortune permitted him to witness and to appreciate the daring gallantry of some of those sons, and the patient endurance of others, - nay, of all, at that period of the war of independence, when the Morea was nearly overrun by the disciplined troops of the Pacha of Egypt, and when, of the cities and villages of Northern Greece, Missolonghi alone had not been profaned by the foot of the invader. Circumstances threw him into constant and intimate association with the leading Moreote chiefs, with the members of the Provisional Government, and with the most distinguished of those gallant islanders, who have earned to themselves an undying name in the marine "guerilla" warfare, which during years was waged by their tiny vessels with the leviathans of the Porte. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.