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Greek nation.” Claude believed the Greeks had every right to revolt and should be given support from the rest of Europe because the Ottomans had wronged the sciences, the arts, and the human race of Greece (doc 3). A French engraving, Greece Sacrificed, by A. Régnier showed that the Ottoman government officials would even goes so far as to kill Greek families, that consisted of starving Christian women and frightened children (Doc11).
However, there were many who opposed the revolution and for them the Greeks were a lower form of society. Alexandros Kalphoglou wrote a poem describing the Greeks as weak imitations of the Frenchman. “Do not go to Church, for they have got French enlightenment. They say, we have books and French romances,” he wrote describing the mind of a common Greek citizen (doc 4). In a letter to his English friend, James Dallaway, described Greeks as ”The lower ranks are the merriest creatures, imaginable, but are untrustworthy, and awake to every advantage,” and in his eyes a strong power was needed to keep the Greeks in line (doc 5). A Turkish provincial governor, Vahid Pasha described the Greek revolutionists as nothing more than “, this revolution was none other than drunkards (O the blasphemy of it!) shamelessly roaming about and cheering.” Without a higher order the citizens of Greece were nothing more than drunkards to the Turks (doc 9). Although the Greeks were subjected to a lot of wrong doing at the hands of the Turks the Ottomans believed their actions were justified. This conflict between the Turks and the Greeks ended in 1828 when the Greeks gained independence. It was only possible to overthrow a kingdom as a large as the Ottoman Empire with wide based support from numerous European countries. However the views of the Greek’s intentions of independence had drastic differences between those who opposed and those who didn’t oppose the