Record

Document Reference	Bu 34/ 1-8
Title	Copy letters from A. Buchanan, Corfu, to S. Canning [later 1st Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe]; 1828.
Date	1828
Level	Item/file
Content Description	Copies of letters sent by A. Buchanan to Stratford Canning when left in charge of Constantinople archives between the departure of H.M. Embassy from that capital after the battle of Navarino until the conferences at Paris in 1828. The British Government adopted a policy of neutrality towards the Greek rebellion due to the influence of Stratford Canning; Candia had been promised by the Sultan of Turkey to the Pasha of Egypt; it was blockaded as it was been used by Mehemet Ali to supply Morea; conference at Poros to resolve the issue.
Term	military campaigns, Greek War of Independence 1821-32

Persons

Code	PersonName	Dates of existence
NA6006	Mahmoud II (1785-1839 ); Sultan of Turkey; ( succeeded 1808)	1785-1839
NA136	Buchanan; Andrew (1807-1882); 1st Baronet; diplomat	1807-1882
NA5991	Canning; Stratford (1786-1880); 1st Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe	1786-1880