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After the elimination of the plague epidemic in Corfu, the 75th Regiment of Foot moved, in August 1817, to the island of Lefkas, where it stayed until the end of 1820. From Lefkas, Goodison travelled to other Ionian islands, like Meganisi, Ithaca, Cephalonia and Zante. The Regiment returned to Corfu on the last days of 1820, and stayed there ...
Spyridon is the patron saint of potters (from the miracle of the potsherd, above) and of the island of Corfu where he is called "Αγιος Σπυρίδων ο πολιούχος", "Saint Spyridon, the Keeper of the City", for the miracle of expelling the plague (πανούκλη) from the island.
Eventually Suleiman, worried by a plague among his troops, [7] decided to return with his fleet to Istanbul by mid-September without having captured Corfu. [2] French ambassador Jean de La Forêt became seriously ill and died around that time. [2] Francis I finally penetrated into Italy, and reached Rivoli on 31 October 1537. [8]
Saint-Blancard had left Marseille on 15 August with 12 galleys and arrived at Corfu in early September 1537. [4] [5] Eventually Suleiman, worried by a plague among his troops, [6] decided to return with his fleet to Istanbul by mid-September without having captured Corfu. [4] The fleet of Saint-Blancard wintered in Chios until 17 February 1538. [7]
Maitland arrived in Corfu on 16 February 1816, and eight months later, on 25 October 1816, forty-six noble Corfiots made a proposal for the construction of a triumphal arch in his honour. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The monument was eventually constructed in 1821 in a completely different form of a rotunda with twenty Ionic columns.
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The British had reacted to the French takeover of the islands by a naval blockade, which impeded both trade and the supply of the islands. The resulting hardships, and the activities of British agents, inflamed anti-French sentiments, and some Ionian captains petitioned the British commander-in-chief in the Mediterranean, John Stuart, for aid in expelling the French from the islands. [2]
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