1. Kostas Kostis, History’s Spoiled Children: The Formation of the Modern Greek State, trans. Jacob Moe (London: Hurst, 2018; Greek original published in 2013), 59; Thomas Gallant, The Edinburgh History of the Greeks, 1768 to 1913 (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2015), 117; Thomas Gallant, Modern Greece: From the War of Independence to the Present, 2nd edn (London: Bloomsbury, 2016), 119.
2. Spyridon Trikoupis, Ιστορία της Ελληνικής Επαναστάσεως [History of the Greek Revolution], 4 vols (London, 1853–7), vol. 1, 9, echoed in 2016 by Vasilis Kremmydas, Η ελληνική επανάσταση του 1821. Τεκμήρια, αναψηλαφήσεις, ερμηνείες [The Greek Revolution of 1821: Documents, Investigations, Interpretations] (Athens: Gutenberg, 2016), 99.
3. George Finlay, History of the Greek Revolution, 2 vols (Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1861), vol. 1, 283; see also vol. 1, 119, 177–8, 195; vol. 2, 194, 381.
4. Mavrokordatos to Dimitrios Ypsilantis, 27 October [= 8 November] 1821, first published in Ioannis Philemon, Δοκίμιον ιστορικόν περί της Ελληνικής Επαναστάσεως [Historical Essay concerning the Greek Revolution], 4 vols (Athens: Karyofyllis, 1859–61), vol. 4, 513–14.
5. Finlay, History, vol. 1, 299.
6. Petros Pizanias (ed.), The Greek Revolution of 1821: A European Event (Istanbul: Isis Press, 2011; Greek original published 2009).
7. Pizanias (ed.), Greek Revolution, 64.
8. Finlay, History, vol. 2, 81.
9. Christos Evangelatos, Ιστορία του Μεσολογγίου [History of Missolonghi] (Athens: Govostis, 2007), 377; Thomas Gordon, History of the Greek Revolution, 2 vols (Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1832), vol. 2, 265, 260; Finlay, History, vol. 2, 105; see also vol. 2, 111.
10. Gordon, History, vol. 1, 183. The Greek text, presumably the original, given by Trikoupis (Ιστορία [History], vol. 1, 368–9) does not include the final sentence quoted.
11. Lord Byron, Don Juan, canto 10, lines 135–6.
12. Roderick Beaton, Byron’s War: Romantic Rebellion, Greek Revolution (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013), 152–3, citing James Hamilton Browne, ‘Narrative of a visit, in 1823, to the seat of war in Greece’, Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, vol. 36, no. 226 (September 1834), 404.
13. Gordon, History, vol. 2, 283–4.
14. Gordon, History, vol. 2, 278–9.
15. Hüseyin Şükrü Ilıcak, ‘A radical rethinking of empire: Ottoman state and society during the Greek War of Independence (1821–1826)’ (PhD dissertation, Harvard University, 2011), 169, 193, 196, 257–60.
16. Gary Bass, Freedom’s Battle: The Origins of Humanitarian Intervention (New York: Vintage, 2009), 92–7; William St Clair, That Greece Might Still Be Free: The Philhellenes in the War of Independence (Cambridge: Open Book, 2008; first published 1972), 274–6.
17. Lucien Frary, Russia and the Making of Modern Greek Identity, 1821–1844 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015), 44, 53.
18. Douglas Dakin, The Greek Struggle for Independence, 1821–1833 (London: Batsford, 1973), 273.
19. Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Greece, Service of Historical Archives, The Foundation of the Modern Greek State: Major Treaties and Conventions (1830–1947), ed. Ph. Constantopoulou (Athens: Kastaniotis, 1999), 30 (in French). Facsimile of the original in J. M. Wagstaff (ed.), Greece: Ethnicity and Sovereignty, 1820–1994. Atlas and Documents (Archive Editions [Cambridge: Cambridge University Press], 2002), 141–5.
20. Finlay, History, vol. 2, 199, 209, 217, 218, 220, 227.
21. Kremmydas, Επανάσταση [Revolution], 198–9.
22. Peter Bien, Nikos Kazantzakis: Politics of the Spirit, vol. 2 (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007), 197–223; Adamantios Korais, Άπαντα τα πρωτότυπα έργα, τόμ. Α΄ [Complete Original Works, Vol. 1], ed. G. Valetas (Athens: Dorikos, 1964), 802 (Καποδιστριακοί διάλογοι Ε΄ [Capodistrian Dialogues, no. 5], dated 30 October 1831); C. M. Woodhouse, Capodistria: The Founder of Greek Independence (London: Oxford University Press, 1973), 502–3.
23. Finlay, History, vol. 2, 275–6.