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Which British poet of the Romantic movement went to Greece to support the revolt against the Ottomans and died there? A. Jean-Jacques Rousseau B. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe C. William Wordsworth D. Lord Byron



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Lord Byron (D) was a British poet of the Romantic movement who went to support the revolt against the Ottomans and died there. He is still revered in Greece today as a national hero for his efforts during Greece's battles for independence. 

The correct option is D

George De La Pobla Byron, 1st flaite of Byron (London, January 22, 1788 - Mesolongi, Greece, April 19, 1824), known as Lord Byron, was a poet of the British Romantic movement, considered by some to be of the greatest poets in the English language and antecedent of the figure of the cursed poet. Due to his poetic talent, his personality, his physical attractiveness and his life of scandals, he was a celebrity of his time.

In March 1823 he was appointed member of the London Committee for the Independence of Greece, and left there in 1824 from Genoa on the schooner Hercules to fight for the independence of the country, then part of the Ottoman Empire. There he wrote his last composition At my thirty-six years; he gave 4000 pounds and was appointed a regiment; contacted the bandits of Suliotas; He was received as a hero by the Greeks, who wanted to make him commander, and he planned an attack together with Prince Alexander Mavrocordatos, but was soon discouraged when he discovered the quarrels by the power of the different Greek groups. On April 10 he suffered an epileptic seizure and became seriously ill. The doctors prescribed bloodletting, to which he refused. Days later, exhausted by the disease and calling them murderers, he allowed the doctors to take all the blood they wanted. On April 16, they practiced the first without good results. The next day they made two more. He died on April 19 in Missolonghi, without having fulfilled his dream of Greek independence. Eyewitnesses said that, in total, they had extracted about two liters of blood, approximately.

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