Encyclopædia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature, History, Politics, and Biography, Brought Down to the Present Time; Including a Copious Collection of Original Articles in American Biography; on the Basis of the Seventh Edition of the German Conversations-lexicon, Volum 6Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth Thomas, Cowperthwait, & Company, 1838 |
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Pàgina 17
... hastened to relieve the citadel of Patras , and the town was changed into a heap of ruins . The mas- sacre of the inhabitants , April 15 , was the signal for a struggle of life and death . Almost 2 * GREECE , REVOLUTION OF MODERN . 17.
... hastened to relieve the citadel of Patras , and the town was changed into a heap of ruins . The mas- sacre of the inhabitants , April 15 , was the signal for a struggle of life and death . Almost 2 * GREECE , REVOLUTION OF MODERN . 17.
Pàgina 30
... town to deliver up the place to the pacha Jussuf . The Suliots began to commit great excesses , being excessively discontented with lord Byron's new regu- lations , and with the influence of foreign- ers in general . A great number of ...
... town to deliver up the place to the pacha Jussuf . The Suliots began to commit great excesses , being excessively discontented with lord Byron's new regu- lations , and with the influence of foreign- ers in general . A great number of ...
Pàgina 31
... town and the forts . Whilst the principal at- tack appeared to be made here , a landing was effected on the opposite coast , upon a sandy point of land , where an Albanese battalion , under the traitor Goda , deserted the battery ...
... town and the forts . Whilst the principal at- tack appeared to be made here , a landing was effected on the opposite coast , upon a sandy point of land , where an Albanese battalion , under the traitor Goda , deserted the battery ...
Pàgina 34
... town to surrender , if they did not wish the place to be taken by storm . They refused the offer . Soon after , there was an engagement between the fleets , in the gulf of Patras , on the 27th and 28th of January , when the Greek fire ...
... town to surrender , if they did not wish the place to be taken by storm . They refused the offer . Soon after , there was an engagement between the fleets , in the gulf of Patras , on the 27th and 28th of January , when the Greek fire ...
Pàgina 37
... town of Navarino without opposition . He then attacked the Turkish fortresses in Messenia . The garrison made no resistance , and , on the other hand , the commanders would not capitulate . The French , therefore , almost without ...
... town of Navarino without opposition . He then attacked the Turkish fortresses in Messenia . The garrison made no resistance , and , on the other hand , the commanders would not capitulate . The French , therefore , almost without ...
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Pàgina 128 - St. John's Palace, an ancient house in Wells Street, is believed to have been the residence of the prior of the order of St. John of Jerusalem. Pop. 60,000. — Hackney-coaches took their name from this parish. HADDINQTON, or KAST-LOTHIAW, had' -ding -ton, a county of Scotland, bounded E.