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Posts in The Copybook for ‘The end of second Siege of Missolonghi’

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Byron and Hercules Clay Lane

Lord Byron could not have hoped for a better omen in his support for the oppressed people of Greece.

George Gordon Byron, one of the greatest of all English romantic poets, died in 1824, aged just 36, in Missolonghi, Greece. Yet he played a key part in liberating Greece from almost four hundred years of oppression by the Ottoman Empire.

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