Henri de Rigny
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Marie Henri Daniel Gauthier, comte de Rigny was the commander of the French squadron at the Battle of Navarino in the Greek War of Independence.
Admiral de Rigny; portrait by François-Gabriel Lépaulle (1836)
Henri de Rigny, Vice-Admiral, Commander of the naval forces of France, in the seas of the Levant (painted lithograph by Philéad Salvator Lévilly, National Historical Museum of Greece, Engraving Collection).
The Battle of Navarino by George Philip Reinagle. The Battle of Navarino on 20 October 1827.
Henri de Rigny (lithography executed by Antoine Maurin in 1835)
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.