Word: missolonghi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Speedey Deselution." Byron made Italy his home for seven years before proceeding to Greece with the little army of men whom he paid out of his own pocket to fight against the Turks for Greek independence. There, at swampy Missolonghi, he died of fever at the age of 36, attended to the last by his devoted valet, William Fletcher. All others when they wrote of Byron rose to the occasion with polished words and well-turned phrases, but it was the blunt, semiliterate Fletcher who had the privilege of recording what he called that "fatal day which deprived England...
Letter from Missolonghi. "I feel," wrote Byron's better self, "and I feel it bitterly, that a man should not consume his life at the side and on the bosom of a woman, and a stranger . . . But I have neither the strength of mind to break my chain, nor the insensibility which would deaden its weight...
Three weeks later at Missolonghi, in the midst of a violent thunderstorm, Byron died of a fever. It was the sort of death he had invited years before in one of his most passionate and characteristic couplets...