Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgements

A note on pronunciation

A note on currencies and prices

1. Revolution and the Great Church

2. Resentment and Regeneration

3. Two Prophets of Revolution

4. The Philikí Etería

6. Revolt along the Danube

7. Doubts and Deliberations in the South

8. The Storm Breaks

9. The Land War

10. The War at Sea

11. The Turkish Reaction

12. The Capture of Tripolis

13. Forming a Government

14. The Eyes of the World on Greece

15. The Philhellenes in Action

17. The Expedition of Dramali

18. The Greeks Divided

19. Byron’s Road to Greece

20. Byron at Mesolongi

21. Gold from London

22. Civil War in Greece

23. Ibrahim in the Peloponnese

24. The Involvement of the Powers

25. Odysseus and Trelawny

26. The Fall of Mesolongi

27. The Second English Loan

28. Desperate Remedies

29. Athens, the Last Ottoman Success

30. The Treaty of London and the Admirals’ Instructions

32. Kapodhístrias, a Border and a King

Select Bibliography