Henry George Ward
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Sir Henry George Ward GCMG was an English diplomat, politician, and colonial administrator.
Henry George Ward, 1842 engraving by William Henry Mote, after James Holmes.
Puente del Rey, engraving from Mexico in 1827 (1828) by Henry George Ward, after Emily Elizabeth Ward.
Cephalonia
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Kefalonia or Cephalonia, formerly also known as Kefallinia or Kephallenia, is the largest of the Ionian Islands in western Greece and the sixth-largest island in Greece after Crete, Euboea, Lesbos, Rh
Henry George Ward
…1849, found the local assembly unworkable and prorogued it. On 1 August 1849, he proclaimed an amnesty to those who had taken part in the rebellion in Cephalonia against his predecessor, Lord Seaton. By the end of August, there was a fresh insurgency; he went to Cephalonia, and suppressed it by October, using a…
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Excavations from Melissani in the Archaeological Museum of Argostoli
Evangelistria Church, St. George's castle.
The sea mills at the bay of Argostoli (1849) were a natural curiosity in the 19th century. Mount Ainos in the background.