This event involved Thomas Wyse and Edmund Lyons, and occurred during the prime minister-ship of John Kolettis, who'd recently been elected on a pro- French party ticket.
This event involved Thomas Wyse and Edmund Lyons, and occurred during the prime minister-ship of John Kolettis, who'd recently been elected on a pro- French party ticket. It occurred shortly after the similar Fantome case, which was cited in a speech defending the actions of one side in this event – that speech concludes by invoking the doctrine of Civis Romanus sum to justify the measures taken against King Otto I. It all stemmed from an insult during a Good Friday funeral procession, which led to an action that prompted the Royal Navy to blockade the Piraeus and demand an exorbitant price to satisfy the central claim, in a dazzling display of "gunboat diplomacy." FTP, name this 1847 event which ostensibly saw ►the foreign secretary Viscount Palmerston protect a namesake Jewish trader whose house was burnt down in Athens.
This event involved Thomas Wyse and Edmund Lyons, and occurred during the prime minister-ship of John Kolettis, who'd recently been elected on a pro- French party ticket.
{Don Pacifico} affair (or David Pacifico)