By Evaggelos Vallianatos, Ph.D. Prologue After nearly four centuries of ceaseless resistance and rebellions against Turkish military occupation of their country, the Greeks revolted to regain their freedom. The Greek Revolution started in 1821 and came to some kind of a temporary slowdown in 1827, when French, Russian and British warships annihilated a join Turkish-Egyptian […] The post Almost Free: The Hellenic Revolution of 1821 and the Continuing Struggle for Freedom in Modern Hellas appeared first on Hellenic News of America.
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