Don Pacifico affair: Lord Palmerston, the Foreign Secretary

When

18 Jan 1850

Kind

Event

Coordinates

37.94° N, 23.65° E

Placed at the town its text puts it in, Piraeus.

Don Pacifico affair: Lord Palmerston, the Foreign Secretary, sends a Royal Navy squadron to blockade the port of Piraeus in the Aegean Sea in defence of the interests of a British citizen, causing a diplomatic incident with Russia and France.

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• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “En el Reino de Grecia, bloqueo comercial marítimo del puerto de El Pireo por la flota británica durante dos meses, como consecuencia del Incidente Don Pacífico”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page