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1811-01-20 Byron to FrHodgson. London Journal 7 March 1814

Mentioned by Byron 1811-01-20 to FrHodgson

Visited as of 1810-05-03. A town in Greece, the site of the battle of Marathon in 490 BC, in which the heavily outnumbered Athenian army defeated the Persians. The
tumulus or burial mound, also called the "Soros," for the 192 Athenian dead that…

Visited as of 1810-05-03. A promontory located 69 kilometres (43 mi) SSE of Athens, at the southernmost tip of the Attica peninsula in Greece. Wiki

Mentioned by Hobhouse to Byron 1810-08-15

The historical name of the Biga peninsula in the northwestern part of Anatolia, Turkey. Wiki

Dandy and friend of Byron.

Classical scholar, son of the Revd Joseph Drury (1751–1834). Henry Drury was Byron’s first Harrow tutor.

Poet, critic, painter, landscape gardener. From the ODNB: "Poet, critic, and religious humanist, Pope was also a good conversationalist and letter writer, an influential garden designer, and a connoisseur of architecture and art."

the only son of the Irish playwright and poet Richard Brinsley Sheridan and the soprano Elizabeth Ann Linley, politician