Mesolonghi
Americannoun
noun
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Lord Byron arrived at Mesolonghi on January 5, 1824.
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Galaxídhi revolted in April, and was followed in June by Mesolonghi—a prosperous town of fishermen, impregnably situated in the midst of the lagoons at the mouth of the Aspropotamo, beyond the narrows of the Korinthian Gulf.
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On November 6 he actually laid siege to Mesolonghi, but here his experiences were as discomfiting as Dramali's.
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The Ottoman commander in the west raised an auxiliary force of Moslem and Catholic clansmen from northern Albania, and attempted to reach Mesolonghi once more.
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At the same time the Ottoman army of the west moved south again under a new commander, Rashid Pasha of Yannina, and laid final siege on April 27 to Mesolonghi, just a year after Byron had died of fever within its walls.
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