Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction by Roderick Beaton

1 The Outbreak

2 The Return of the Ancient Hellenes

3 The Regiment

4 Two Kinds of War

5 The Cause of Greece, the Cause of Europe

6 The Road to Marseilles

7 Chios

8 The Battalion of Philhellenes

9 The Battle of Peta

10 The Triumph of the Captains

11 The Return Home

12 The German Legion

13 Knights and Crusaders

14 Secrets of State

15 Enter the British

16 Lord Byron joins the Cause

17 ‘To bring Freedom and Knowledge to Greece’

18 Arrivals at Missolonghi

19 The Byron Brigade

20 Essays in Regeneration

21 The New Apostles

22 The English Gold

23 The Coming of the Arabs

24 The Shade of Napoleon

25 ‘No freedom to fight for at home’

26 French Idealism and French Cynicism

27 Regulars Again

28 A New Fleet

29 Athens and Navarino

30 America to the Rescue

31 Later

Appendix     I. Remarks on Numbers

                      II. The Principal Philhellenic Expeditions

Note on the Select Bibliography

Select Bibliography

Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Material Published Since 1972

Notes

Index