Cretan Insurrection of 1866-7-8

The book "The Cretan Insurrection of 1866-7-8" by William James Stillman was published in 1874 by Henry Holt and Company, New York.  It is available as a FREE Google ebook.


If you had relatives who were in Crete during 1866 through 1868 this might be an interesting read. 


Below you can find a list of the 25 Greek names listed in the book and the Table of Contents.


GREEK NAMES

Afendallos

Belondaki, Costa

Bulgaris

Comoundouros

Coroncos

Criaris

Dimitrikarakos

Joannides (aka Pappadakis)

Kalergis

Kelaides, Parthenius

Korakas

Mavrocordato

Mikhali, Hadji

Pappadakis (aka Joannides)

Petrides

Petropoulaki

Sacopoulos

Skoulas

Soliotis

Tombasis

Veloudaki, Costa

Yennissarli

Zimbrakaki(s)

TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTORY 

Crete and the Cretans

CHAPTER I.  (April, 1866)

Ismael Pasha

CHAPTER II.  (May, 1866)

Agitation

CHAPTER III.  (July, August 1866)

Days of Terror

CHAPTER IV.  (September 1866)

Preliminaries of War

Ultima Ratio

Mustapha Kirlitli Pasha

CHAPTER V.  (October 1866)

Getting to Work

Russian Intervention

CHAPTER VI.  (November 1866)

Coroneos

The Convent of Arkadi

CHAPTER VII.  (December 1866)

The Recoil of the Gun

Pym and the Assurance

CHAPTER VIII (December 1866)

Ignatieff Again

Respite

CHAPTER IX.  (January, February 1867)

More Disaster

A Page from the Blue-Book

CHAPTER X. (March-May 1867)

Change of Administration

Hellenic Blunders

Effect of Hellenic Politics

CHAPTER XI.  (June-September 1867)

Hussein Avni

A New Victim

Sphakia again

A New Campaign

Bottled up

CHAPTER XII.  (October, November 1867)

Attack on Lasithe

Sphakian Campaign

Reschid

CHAPTER XIII.  (December 1867)

Russian Plans Ripening

The Last of the Victims

CHAPTER XIV.  (1868)

A’ali Pasha Fails

The End

THE YEAR AFTER THE WAR

Visit to Omalos

Alikianu

Hadji Houssein’s Story

The Plain of Omalos

The Xyloscala

At Constantinople

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