Author: William WHEELER (Private, of the 51st Regiment of Foot.)Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
The Letters of Private Wheeler, 1809-1828. Edited and with a Foreword by Captain B. H. Liddel Hart
Author: William WHEELER (Private, of the 51st Regiment of Foot.)Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
The Letters of Private William Wheeler
Author: William WheelerThe Letters of Private Wheeler, 1809-1828
Author: William WheelerThe Letters of Private Wheeler, 1809-1828
Author: William WheelerAnglo-Hellenic Cultural Relations
Author: Panos KaragiorgosPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443881325
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
The influence of Greece has had a strong effect on Britain’s cultural heritage and vice versa. This book encompasses fifteen topics relating to the more significant cultural contacts between the two countries. All these fifteen chapters are the result of research in various archives, both in Britain and in Greece, and demonstrate some sporadic periods of the reciprocal cultural, as opposed to political, relations of the two countries. Starting with Pytheas, who was the first to circumnavigate Britain in the time of Alexander the Great and who gave a detailed report of what he saw there, followed by an account of the life and works of the Greek monk Theodore of Tarsus, later 6th Archbishop of Canterbury, who organized the Church of England, the book includes a chapter on Shakespeare’s classical knowledge and his “small Latine and lesse Greeke”. There is also a chapter on Milton’s interest, when he was Cromwell’s Latin Secretary, in liberating Greece from Ottoman rule, and a study of an ode the young Coleridge wrote in Greek. The two great philhellenes Shelley and Byron also figure here in connection with Greece and in the light of written documents, particularly in Byron’s case. The book presents also a lesser-known poem on Rigas’ death written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and concludes with two articles on Clement Harris, who volunteered and died for Greece in 1897 and on Lawrence Durrell, who loved Greece and lived on three Greek Islands, Corfu, Rhodes and Cyprus. Given its variety of subject matter and its detailed discussions, this book offers an insightful contribution to a further and better understanding between the people of these two countries.
The Letters of Private Wheeler 1808-1828
Author: William WheelerCampaign of the Falieri and Piraeus in the Year 1827, Or, Journal of a Volunteer, Being the Personal Account of Captain Thomas Douglas Whitcombe
Author: Thomas Douglas WhitcombePublisher: ASCSA
ISBN: 9780876614051
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
This book presents the diary of Captain Thomas Douglas Whitcombe, a young English gunnery officer who in 1827 participated as a volunteer in an expedition to relieve the Turkish siege of the Acropolis of Athens. Covering the period from winter 1826 to late summer 1827, the journal gives an eyewitness account of the actions of the Greek Army and its corps of European volunteers, including those known as the Philhellenes, and a view of the culture and society of Greece in the early 19th century. An introduction provides historical background for the Greek Revolution, a comparative analysis of existing published accounts of the 1827 expedition, and notes on the author and his manuscript. Three appendixes complement the journal, they present details of Whitcombe's family, the recollections of Whitcombe's daughter (with notes by Eliot), and biographical sketches of the European volunteers who served in the 1827 campaign.
Waterloo
Author: John NaylorPublisher:
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Category : Waterloo, Battle of, Waterloo, Belgium, 1815
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Nineteenth Century, a Monthly Review
Author: Catalogue
Author: Maggs BrosPublisher:
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Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 106
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