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ΙΙΙ.9.6
Proposal of the Executive for the naturalization of Philhellenes (Tripolis, 11 June 1823)
Archives of the Greek Regeneration, vol. 10, no 200 [pp. 129-130] Library of the Hellenic Parliament
REFERENCE is made to the multiple contribu- tion of the German philhellenic committees to the Struggle for Independence, by financial aid, Philhel- lenes coming to fight in the battlefields, publications
and reports on the just demands of the Greeks. There follows a proposition for their naturalization as an indication of gratitude for their services to the revolted Greece.
ΙΙΙ.9.7
Maxime Raybaud
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Mémoires sur la Grèce, Pour servir a l’histoire de la guerre de l’Indépendance, accompagnés de plans topographiques, ancien officier supérieur au corps des Philhellènes, et aide-de-camp du Prés- ident du pouvoir exécutif du Gouvernement grec; avec une introduction historique, par Alph. Rabbe. Tome second.
Paris, Tournachon-Molin, Libraire, Rue Saint-André-des-Arts, No 45. M. DCCC. XXV. Library of the Hellenic Parliament
JEAN-FRANÇOIS-MAXIME RAYBAUD
(1795-1894) was a French philhellene, soldier and diplomat; he was one of the first to join the mili- tary operations of the Greek Revolution (already in 1821), including several major ones, such as those at Missolonghi and Tripolitsa. Having access to first- hand sources, he composed a two-volume historio- graphical work about the early years of the Greek Struggle in the form of memoirs, which is widely regarded as objective.
Raybaud’s history is also a major source of in- formation about the philhellenes who fought on the side of the Greeks. It furnishes detailed in- formation and charts of the victorious Battle of Kompoti (June 10, 1822) and the disastrous, es- pecially for the philhellenic corps, Battle of Peta, outside Arta, on July 4, 1822. Raybaud returned to Greece with the French Mission to the Morea [cat. no II.8.C.2].