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Philhellenes
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Philhellenes 

in the broad sense, the Europeans and Americans who sympathized with or aided the Greeks in their struggle for liberation from the Ottoman yoke in the late 18th and early 19th centuries; in the narrow sense, the foreign participants in the Greek War of Independence of 1821–29. Among the Philhellenes who went to Greece were Serbian, Bulgarian, and Montenegrin soldiers, Polish revolutionaries, Italian Carbonari, and such Russian volunteers as N. Raiko and A. Protopopov. Lord Byron, the English poet, also went to Greece to help in the liberation struggle.
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To characterize him (Downer) a philhellene because his partner is Greek, would be as naE[macron]ve as saying that he is Turkophile because a client of his invested in Turkey," Alithia said.
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Samuel, a renowned northern reformer and longstanding philhellene who had served as a doctor and soldier in the Greek War of Independence (1821-1828), assumed the formal leadership of American relief efforts.
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Philhellene art was a tangible expression of this, and Philhellene propaganda significantly influenced public opinion in the late 18th and early 19th centuries in various ways, from helping fund the war effort through to persuading individuals to take up arms.
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