Episode 394 - Lord Byron: Part 2

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🗓️ 29 December 2025

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SUPPORT THE SHOW ON PATREON! https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys The conclusion to our series on Lord Byron. Special thanks to Joel Butler for additional research in this episode. New sources in this episode: C.W. Crawley, The Question of Greek Independence: A Study of British Policy in the Near East, 1821-1833 (Cambridge, 1930), Caroline Finkel, Osman’s Dream (London, 2006), 425-428. W.H. Humphreys, W.H. Humphreys’ First “Journal of the Greek War of Independence” (July 1821-February 1822), Acta Academiæ Regiæ Scientiarum Upsaliensis, 11, ed. Sture Linnér (Stockholm, 1967), 23-24. H. Şükrü Ilıcak (ed.), “Those Infidel Greeks”: The Greek War of Independence Through Ottoman Archival Documents, 1 (Leiden, 2021), 1.

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1:45.8	So when we left off last week, Lord Byron had set sail for Greece from Genoa.
1:52.7	There were a few false starts because of bad wind, but eventually Byron begins to advance
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