Navarino's conflict of cultures

The Spectator | November 15, 1997| | Copyright

Images of literature and art played a crucial role in this naval battle, writes David Crane

From the sound of things lunch at the Karalis Beach Hotel was going very well. On the shelf behind the reception desk a row of caps and swords showed that we had come to the right place, but the manager standing guard couldn't help with the one question we wanted answering. He could clearly do us a line in French or Russian captains or the odd Greek admiral, but the British? `Perhaps,' he suggested, with the shrug of a man who has already watched Arsenal crash out of Europe and was not to be surprised ...

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