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Lord Byron, or George Gordon, 6th Baron Byron, later George Gordon Noel, 6th Baron Byron, FRS born 22 January 1788, London commonly known simply as Lord Byron, was an English poet who penned Don Juan, started in 1819 and incomplete on Byron's death in 1824).Some of his other works include ‘She Walks in Beauty’, ‘When we are parted’, and ‘So, we’ll go no more a roving’.
Heading to Greece, Mavrokordatos and Byron planned to attack the Turkish-held fortress of Lepanto, at the mouth of the Gulf of Corinth. Byron employed a fire-master to prepare artillery and took part of the rebel army under his own command, despite his lack of military experience. Before the expedition could sail, on 15 February 1824, he fell ill, and the usual remedy of bloodletting weakened him further. He made a partial recovery, but in early April he caught a violent cold, which therapeutic bleeding, insisted on by his doctors, aggravated. It is suspected this treatment, carried out with unsterilised medical instruments, may have caused him to develop sepsis. He developed a violent fever, and died in Missolonghi on 19 April 1824
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