Frank Abney Hastings
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Frank Abney Hastings was a British naval officer and Philhellene. Born to a noble British family, he served in the Royal Navy, seeing action at the Battle of Trafalgar and the Battle of New Orleans. I
Posthumous Portrait by Spyridon Prosalentis
Watercolor of the flagship Karteria
The old arsenal, now a Naval Academy where Hastings is buried
Battle of Navarino
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The Battle of Navarino was a naval battle fought on 20 October 1827, during the Greek War of Independence, in Navarino Bay, on the west coast of the Peloponnese peninsula, in the Ionian Sea. Allied fo
The Naval Battle of Navarino Ambroise Louis Garneray, 1827
Satellite picture of the Peloponnese. Navarino Bay is visible in the inset in the lower left.
Codrington's squadron prevents the Ottoman reinforcements from reaching Patras on 4 October.
Ibrahim Pasha, the commander of the Egyptian expedition to the Peloponnese. The atrocities committed by his forces against the Greek population made him one of the most reviled figures in Europe.