The Battle of Navarino
Ambroise Louis Garneray · 1827
Why it's great
In October 1827 a British, French and Russian fleet destroyed the Ottoman and Egyptian ships at Navarino, a sea battle that turned the Greek War of Independence in favor of the Greeks. Ambroise Louis Garneray painted it soon afterward.
🏛️ Part of history
Independence & Revolutions (1820–1848) (1820–1848) — In October 1827 a British, French and Russian fleet destroyed the Ottoman and Egyptian ships at Navarino, a sea battle that turned the Greek War of Independence in favor of the Greeks.
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Ambroise Louis Garneray was a French painter born in Paris in 1783. He went to sea as a boy, was a prisoner of the British during the Napoleonic wars, and later became a famous painter of ships and sea battles. He died in Paris in 1857.
