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The Insurrection in Crete: Attack of Bashi Bazouks on the Christian insurgents at Akrotiry. Major Bor and Lieut. Buller - by the admirals orders trying to persuade the Bashi Bazouks to go away or retire (& this was under heavy fire.)

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Year:
1897
Contributor:
Prior, Melton, 1845-1910 (artist)
Genre:
drawings (visual works)
Subject:
Greco-Turkish War, 1897
Local ID:
TuO1897mf-1
Extent:
1 drawing; 39.5 x 27.2 cm.

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Abstract:
Original pencil drawing signed "Melton Prior, Canea"; British officers in foreground attempting to persuade Turks to cease advance and attack against Cretans in rocky terrain.
Notes:
For Illustrated London News, April 24, 1897, page 564.
N.Y., Rockman Prints, 1954.

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Prior, Melton, "The Insurrection in Crete: Attack of Bashi Bazouks on the Christian insurgents at Akrotiry. Major Bor and Lieut. Buller - by the admirals orders trying to persuade the Bashi Bazouks to go away or retire (& this was under heavy fire.) " (1897). Prints, Drawings and Watercolors from the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:232516/

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