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the Greek people & for the English Committee, – since the
influence of his name & of his mind was not only essentially
made important to the Greeks, – but of singular value in all their
associations with their enemies. On more than one occasion
the garrison of Patras – the strongest & most important hold
of the Turks – would have surrendered, could security have been
obtained for the proper fulfilment of the terms of the capitulation.
Just before Lord Byron's death propositions were renewed & we
know that the garrison Turkish & Albanian forces offered to
abandon the Citadel, on obtaining Lord Byron's individual
guarantee for their safety. The negotiations were frustrated
by his illness & death. Yet neither withstanding his too that
career the services he rendered to the Greeks were incalculable.

It was with money furnished by the English Committee and appropriated by Lord Byron that
the walls of Missolonghi were prepared for that heroic
defence, – which is forms perhaps the noblest page in the records of
the Grecian struggle. Very soon after Lord Byron's
arrival in Greece he urged the Committee to address the
different parties Greek people, enjoining them by every motive of virtue
& patriotism to forget their essential personal differences & misunderstandings
& to unite in forwarding that common object to which every other should
be subservient, & which required all the exertions of all
Greeks. At the parties in . For a time it is as hoped that

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Box	110	Main Headings
Folio number	016	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	collectanea	Number of Pages	1
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Penner	sir john bowring	Watermarks	1825
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