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Don Pacifico Affair
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Don Pacifico Affair

(1850) Conflict between Britain and Greece that originated when the home of David Pacifico (known as Don Pacifico), a British subject living in Athens, was burned down in an anti-Semitic riot. In support of his demand for compensation, Viscount Palmerston sent a naval squadron to blockade the Greek coast. Palmerston's policy drew protests from France and Russia as well as Britain's House of Lords, but he won the support of the Commons after arguing that Britain should protect its subjects from injustice wherever they might live.
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00 Hardcover DA536 This book reconstructs the events of the Don Pacifico Affair, which was sparked in 1847 when an anti-Semitic mob in Athens, Greece, attacked the house of one David Pacifico, the Portuguese consul in Athens.
Don Pacifico; the acceptable face of gunboat diplomacy by Reference & Research Book News
Palmerston, the British Foreign Secretary, reached a zenith in gunboat diplomacy when he ordered Athens to be shelled when Don Pacifico, a Maltese Jew and dubious financier, had his house sacked in Athens by the mob, because he had British nationality
The Greek monarchy in retrospect by Nash, Michael / Contemporary Review
 
 
 
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