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Battle of Navarino

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  • noun a decisive naval battle in the War of Greek Independence (1827); the Turkish and Egyptian fleet was defeated by an allied fleet of British and French and Russian warships

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Examples

  • ‘Arleykin Ornpipe, or the Battle of Navarino,’ when

    The History of Pendennis 2006

  • They fired my boy with a retrospective longing to have been present at the Battle of Navarino, when the allied ships of the English, French, and Russians destroyed the Turkish fleet; but it seemed to him that he could not have borne to have the allies impose a king upon the Greeks, when they really wanted a republic, and so he was able to console himself for having been absent.

    Boy Life Stories and Readings Selected From The Works of William Dean Howells William Dean Howells 1878

  • Ornpipe, or the Battle of Navarino, 'when Miss De la Bosky was took ill --

    The History of Pendennis William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

  • The First Consequences of the Interference of the Allied Powers and the Battle of Navarino.

    The Life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane, Tenth Earl of Dundonald, Vol. II Thomas Barnes Cochrane Dundonald 1873

  • Ornpipe, or the Battle of Navarino, 'when Miss De la Bosky was took ill -- a pretty dancer, and a fine stage figure of a woman -- and he was a great sugar-baker in the city, with a country ouse at Omerton; and he used to drive her in the tilbry down Goswell-street-road; and one day they drove and was married at St. Bartholomew's Church Smithfield, where they had their bands read quite private; and she now keeps her carriage; and I sor her name in the paper as patroness of the

    The History of Pendennis, Volume 2 His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest Enemy William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

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