The Cretan Insurrection of 1866-7-8Stillman, William James
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The Cretan Insurrection of 1866-7-8
Stillman, William James
Crete (Greece) -- History -- Insurrection, 1866-1868
_Crete_, climate and products, 13;
antiquities, 14, 16;
present inhabitants, 16;
language, 17, 18;
literature, 18;
music, 19;
conquered by Saracens, 19;
recovered by Byzantine emperors, 20;
transferred to Boniface, and sold to Venetian Republic, 20;
cruel government, 20-26;
conquest by Turks favored, 26;
Turkish rule, 26-37;
Sphakiote insurrection of 1770, 27;
of 1821, 29-31;
united by the allied powers to government of Mehemet Ali, Egyptian
régime, 32-34;
assembly at Murnies in 1833, repression by Mustapha Pasha, 33;
insurrection of 1840, 34;
Assembly of 1858, 34;
of 1864, 36;
hardships preceding the insurrection of 1866, 36
Criaris, a Cretan chief, 105
_Damasta_, 127, 128
Dante's description of Crete, 26
Dendrino, Russian consul, sincere in advising against insurrection,
but probably strengthened Parthenius, 48;
character, 96;
orders a frigate to the Sphakian coast, 98
Deportations, 92, 99, 140, 142
Derché, French consul, supports Ismael Pasha in everything, 44;
urges violent dispersal of the Assembly, 45;
confirms the Pasha against consular protests, 46;
labors to provoke a collision, 52;
intrigue with Schahin Pasha, 54;
refuses to ask for a man-of-war, 57;
recalled, 122
_Dibaki_, port, 130, 135
Dickson, English consul, humane and honest, ordered to co-operate with
his French colleague, 44;
supports Ismael Pasha against the Assembly, 45;
declares an assurance unnecessary, 46;
refuses to ask for a man-of-war, 57;
reports the atrocities at Arkadi, 90;
proposes to send a ship to pick up Cretan families, 92;
dispatch on the affair at Krapi, 104;
captured by Cretans near Canéa, 150
Dimitrikarakos, an Hellenic chief, 125
Diodorus Siculus, on the first inhabitants of Crete, 14
Egyptian régime in Crete, 32;
troops in Crete, 30, 31;
under Schahin Pasha, 53;
at Vrvsis, 63, 64, 66;
as found by Mustapha, 68;
beaten at Stylos, 78;
driven to the assault of Arkadi, 85;
sufferings in the mountains, 90;
slaughter at Krapi, 104;
recalled home, 122;
losses at Sime, 130
"Ennosis" blockaded at Syra, 152
_Episkopi_, 84, 123;
surprised, 99
Erskine, English minister at Athens, 107
Fair at Omalo, April, 1865, 38;
turned into an Assembly, 41
_Foligniaco_, Venetian raid on, 25
_Franco Castelli_ port, 102, 130
_Gaiduropolis_, 132
Geissler (Dilaver Pasha), Turkish chief of Artillery, 124;
death, 134
_Gnossus_, 128
Goldsborough, Rear-Admiral, 101, 116
_Grabusa_, captured by Kalergis, 32
"Grand Admiral," Russian frigate, 76;
ordered to assist in deportation, 96
Greek Government and the insurrection, 63, 112, 114;
under Russian influence, 145;
ostentatious pretence of aiding the revolt, 151
_Halará_, 135
Hobart Pasha blockades the "Ennosis" at Syra, 152
Homer, account of Ancient Crete, 14, 15
_Hostí_, 105
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