Byron's War

by Roderick Beaton

  27. Mavrogordatos, ‘Ήττα’ [‘Defeat’].

  28. Kremmydas, Τρικούπης [Trikoupis], 80.

  29. Tzakis, ‘From Locality’. Against Millingen's negative account of Karaiskakis in 1824, Finlay has written: ‘He was a gallant fellow and died like a hero’ (Millingen 35: GF).

  30. Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Greece, Foundation, 30; Beaton, ‘Introduction’, 1–2.

  Bibliography

  Primary sources

  Archives – unpublished

  Athens

  Historical Archive of the Benaki Museum. For summary description of holdings, see Tselika, Οδηγός [Guide].

  National Historical Museum, Archive of Historical Documents.

  National Library of Greece, Papers of the London Greek Committee.

  Γενικά Αρχεία του Κράτους: Ιστορικόν Αρχείον Αλεξάνδρου Μαυροκορδάτου [General State Archives: Historical Archive of Alexandros Mavrokordatos], 1820–4.

  Edinburgh

  National Library of Scotland. John Murray Archives: George Gordon, Lord Byron, Correspondence and Papers.

  Oxford

  The Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford: MS Abinger.

  Archives – published

  Απομνημονεύματα αγωνιστών [Memoirs of Combatants], ed. E. G. Protopsaltis, 20 vols. (Athens: Vivliothiki, 1955–7).

  Αρχεία της Εληνικής Παλιγγενεσίας [Archives of the Greek Regeneration], 3 vols. (Athens: Library of Parliament, 1971–2) (first published 1857, 1862).

  Αρχεία Λαζάρου και Γεωργίου Κουντουριώτου [Archives of Lazaros and Georgios Koundouriotis], vols. 1–3, ed. Antonios Lignos (Athens: Sakellarios, 1920); vol. 4 (1927); vol. 6, ed. E. G. Protopsaltis (Athens: Library of the General State Archives, 1966).

  Αρχείο Αλή πασά [Ali Pasha Archive], 4 vols., ed. Vasilis Panagiotopoulos, et al. (Athens: National Research Foundation, Institute for Neohellenic Research, 2007).

  Αρχείον της Κοινότητος Ύδρας [Archive of the Community of Hydra], vol. 9 (Piraeus: Sfaira, 1927); vol. 10 (Piraeus: Zanneios, 1928); vol. 16 (Piraeus: Eleftherios, 1932).

  Ελληνικά Χρονικά [Greek Chronicle] (Missolonghi, 1824–6). Photographic reprint (Athens: Spanos and Nikas, 1958).

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  Μνημεία της Ελληνικής Ιστορίας, τόμ. : Ιγνάτιος Μητροπολίτης Ουγγρο-βλαχίας [Monuments of Greek History, vol. 4, Ignatios, Bishop of Hungary and Wallachia], fascicles I–II, ed. E. Protopsaltis (Athens: Academy of Athens, 1959, 1961).

  Μνημεία της Ελληνικής Ιστορίας, τόμ. : Ιστορικόν Αρχείον Αλεξάνδρου Μαυροκορδάτου [Monuments of Greek History, vol. 5, Historical Archive of Alexandros Mavrokordatos], fascicles I–IV, ed. E. Protopsaltis (Athens: Academy of Athens, 1963–74).

  Material published on the internet

  Peter Cochran's website (www.petercochran.wordpress.com/) (complete works of Byron, edited, including unpublished letters addressed to Byron and Hobhouse's Diary).

  Lord Byron and His Times, ed. David Hill Radcliffe (www.lordbyron.org/).

  Books and articles

  Ainian, Dimitrios, Ο Καραϊσκάκης [Karaiskakis], ed. I. K. Mazarakis-Ainian (Athens: Ermis, 1974) (first published 1834), also reprinted in Apomn. 7.

  Blaquiere, Edward, An Historical Review of the Spanish Revolution (London: Whittaker, 1822).

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  Blaquiere, Edward, Report on the Present State of the Greek Confederation (London: Whittaker, 1823).

  Blessington, Countess of, Conversations of Lord Byron, ed. Ernest J. Lovell (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1969) (first published 1834).

  Bowring, John, Autobiographical Recollections (London: King, 1877).

  Bowring, John, Edward Blaquiere, and William Fletcher, ‘Lord Byron in Greece’, Westminster Review, 2 (July 1824), 225–62.

  Broughton, Lord [John Cam Hobhouse], Travels in Albania and Other Provinces of Turkey in 1809 & 1810, 2 vols. (London: John Murray, 1855).

  Browne, James Hamilton, ‘Narrative of a Visit, in 1823, to the Seat of War in Greece’, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, 36.226 (September 1834), 392–407.

  Browne, James Hamilton, ‘Voyage from Leghorn to Cephalonia with Lord Byron’, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, 35.217 (January 1834), 56–67.

  Bruno, Francesco, ‘Last Moments of Lord Byron’, Examiner, 864 (22 August 1824), 530.

  Byron, Lord, The Complete Miscellaneous Prose, ed. Andrew Nicholson (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991).

  Byron, Lord, The Complete Poetical Works, ed. Jerome J. McGann, 7 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1980–93).

  Byron, Lord, His Very Self and Voice: Collected Conversations, ed. Ernest J. Lovell(New York: Macmillan, 1954).

  Byron, Lord, Letters and Journals, ed. Leslie A. Marchand, 13 vols. (London: John Murray, 1973–94).

  Byron, Lord, Letters and Journals, ed. R. E. Prothero, 6 vols. (London: John Murray, 1898–1901).

  Chrysanthopoulos, Fotios (‘Fotakos’), Απομνημονεύματα περί της Ελληνικής Επαναστάσεως [Memoirs of the Greek Revolution] (Athens: Greka, 1971) (first published 1858).

  Clairmont, Claire, The Clairmont Correspondence, ed. Marion Kingston Stocking (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995).

  Clairmont, Claire, The Journals of Claire Clairmont, ed. Marion Kingston Stocking (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1968).

  Dragoumis, N., Ιστορικαί αμαμνήσεις, [Historical Reminiscences, I], ed. Alkis Angelou (Athens: Ermis, 1973) (first published 1874).

  Finlay, George, History of the Greek Revolution, 2 vols. (Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1861).

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  Gamba, Pietro, A Narrative of Lord Byron's Last Journey to Greece [translated from Italian by John Cam Hobhouse] (London: John Murray, 1825).

  Gordon, Thomas, History of the Greek Revolution, 2 vols. (Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1832).

  Green, Philip James, Sketches of the War in Greece, 2nd edn (London: Hurst, 1828) (first published 1827).

  Guiccioli, Teresa, Lord Byron's Life in Italy, translated by Michael Rees, ed. Peter Cochran (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2005).

  Hobhouse, John Cam, Byron's Bulldog: The Letters of John Cam Hobhouse to Lord Byron, ed. Peter W. Graham (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1984).

  Hobhouse, John Cam, Hobhouse's Diary, ed. Peter Cochran. www.petercochran.wordpress.com/hobhouses-diary/.

  Hobhouse, John Cam, A Journey through Albania (London: Cawthorn, 1813).

  Howe, Samuel Gridley, An Historical Sketch of the Greek Revolution (New York: White, Gallaher and White, 1828).

  Howe, Samuel Gridley, Letters and Journals, 2 vols. (Boston, MA: D. Estes, 1906–9).

  Humphreys, W. H., ‘Journal of a Visit to Greece’, in A Picture of Greece in 1825, 2 vols. (London: Colburn, 1826), vol. 2, pp. 197–344.

  Hunt, Leigh, Autobiography, 3 vols. (London: Smith, Elder, 1850).

  Hunt, Leigh, Lord Byron and Some of his Contemporaries (London: Colburn, 1828).

  Kasomoulis, Nikolaos, Ενθυμήματα στρατιωτικά [Military Recollections], ed. G. Vlachogiannis, 3 vols. (Athens, 1939).

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  Napier, William, The Life and Opinions of General Sir Charles Napier, 4 vols. (London, 1857).

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  Philemon, Ioannis, Δοκίμιον ιστορικόν περί της Ελληνικής Επαναστάσεως [Historical Essay Concerning the Greek Revolution], 4 vols. (Athens: Karyofyllis, 1859–61).

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