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| | Mavi Boncuk Archives: November 2005 |
 | | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, peering from her lumbering purdah carriage, fancied their soldiery immensely, in their gleaming white blouses. |
 | | Byron adored them a century later, as much as they were detested by his Greeks—quite understandably, too, for whenever their luck ran out they would merrily sing that they had their ‘musket for vizier, and their carbine for pasha,’ and go off to terrorise their neighbors. |
 | | They were especially dangerous to the Greeks, whose various rebellions from the last quarter of the eighteenth century they were detailed to quash; a task they performed in a leisurely way, cheerfully describing Missolonghi—the longest and bloodiest affray of the last Greek rebellion in the 1820s—as their bank (p. |
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