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Olivier Voutier
Mémoires [...] sur la guerre actuelle des Grecs.
Paris, Bossange Frères, Libraires, Rue de Seine, No 12. Décembre 1823. Library of the Hellenic Parliament
OLIVIER VOUTIER (1796-1877), a French naval officer, became famous for his discovery of the statue of the Venus de Milo in 1820. In 1821 he resigned from the French Navy to join the war in Greece. He took part in important military oper- ations, including the Fall of Tripolitsa, the blockade of Nafplio and the siege of Athens, and reached the rank of artillery colonel.
In 1823 he was forced to return to Paris, as he had been stripped of his French citizenship for his in- volvement in the Greek Revolution. Becoming aware of the widespread misconceptions about the Greek cause, he proceeded to publish this work. His Mem- oirs provide a valuable first-hand account of the ear- ly years of the Greek Revolution; they also informed the European public about the contemporary cir- cumstances in Greece and encouraged philhellenes to join in support of the Greek cause. He also high- lighted he crucial importance of naval warfare and documented the contribution of the klephts.
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Samuel Howe, M.D. Late, Surgeon in chief to the Greek Fleet An Historical Sketch of the Greek Revolution.
New-York: White, Gallaher & White. 1828.
Library of the Hellenic Parliament
THE AMERICAN PHILHELLENE Sam- uel Gridley Howe (1801-1876), a physician with extensive humanitarian activity, supported revo- lutionary movements throughout Europe and op- posed slavery in the United States.
Inspired by the example of Lord Byron, whom he admired, he came to Greece in 1824 and joined the Greek army as surgeon. When he returned to Amer- ica, in 1827, to raise funds for the Greek cause, he took along several orphaned Greek children for their protection. Howe maintained close ties with
the philhellenic movement in America, especially with another important philhellene, Edward Everett in Boston; in Greece, he became friends with an- other philhellenic American, George Jarvis.
Titled An Historical Sketch of the Greek Revolution, this book is essentially Howe’s memoirs from his Greek period and an important source of informa- tion. The title page features a motto from Byron’s Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage; the book is dedicated to Matthew Carey and the aforementioned Edward Everett.
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