Byron's War by Roderick Beaton

Author:Roderick Beaton
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
ISBN: 9781107033085
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-04-30T04:00:00+00:00

He will have groaned to see the name of Blaquiere. Later, in Missolonghi, when he heard Blaquiere called a ‘humbug’, he would pointedly make no comment.30 It can only have been deeply galling to Byron to read, now, what Blaquiere had written to him from Ancona at the end of July, evidently hoping to forestall him before he left Genoa for Greece:

I believe I told your Lordship that such arrangements had been made for your reception, as were likely to prevent unpleasantness or delay. I need not say with how much satisfaction the event was looked forward to, but considering <as I now do>, that your presence either here or in England would be infinitely more beneficial to the cause, I must sincerely hope your resolution has been suspended.31

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