This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1830 Excerpt: ...wealth of the commercial islands and towns of Greece were equally exhausted by the exertions which had been made since the beginning of the contest: some of the powers of continental Europe continued to regard the insurrection as part of a general conspiracy against established governments; the others refused all ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1830 Excerpt: ...wealth of the commercial islands and towns of Greece were equally exhausted by the exertions which had been made since the beginning of the contest: some of the powers of continental Europe continued to regard the insurrection as part of a general conspiracy against established governments; the others refused all countenance to the insurgents; and individual charity was very inadequate to supply the wants of a people in the situation of the Greeks. Hence they were unable to retain in their service, or to satisfy even the most moderate expectations of the numerous military men of experience, who had been left in idleness in every part of Europe by the general peace, and who were anxious for employment in Greece. They were unable even to take into the service of Government their own private ships, by which all their naval efforts had been made, or to execute the repairs of a two years' war for them; so that the number of those ships in a state to oppose the enemy was considerably diminished. Still less could they organise an artillery, or create a corps of infantry, under the orders and in the pay of the Executive, without which it was impossible for the Government to follow any improved plan of military operations, or even to establish a national treasury, collect the taxes, and administer, for the benefit of the revenue, all that large portion of the property of the insurgent districts, which, having formerly belonged to the Turks or their government, was now confiscated to the state. A government without a treasury, a marine, or an army, was of course little better than a cipher." The second Greek congress was summoned by the Executive to meet at Astros, a small town on the maritime frontier of Argolis and Laconia, in the month of April 1823. So great...
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