Byron and Hercules

Lord Byron, a strong supporter of the Greek independence movement in the 1820s, was in Italy when he chanced across a ship named Hercules, built in the little County Durham town where he had married. He took it to Greece, and his influence there helped to turn the tide for the Greeks.

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